William Gibson On Science Fiction

It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. I was tired of America-is-the-future, the world as a white monoculture, the protagonist as a good guy from the middle class or above. I wanted more elbow room. I wanted to make room for antiheroes. [SF writers followed suit and glutted the market with dystopian fiction. Enough already.]

William Gibson, Paris Review, Summer 2011