[SFRA-L] Citation Needed for William Gibson's Foreword/Afterword to Mona Lisa Overdrive

[Jason Ellis]

Hi all,

In two illicit etext versions of William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive,
there is an essay by Gibson titled either "Author's Foreword" or
"Author's Afterword" dated 6/16/92 that begins:

"Ten years have now passed since the inception of whatever strange
process it was that led me to write Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona
Lisa Overdrive. The technology through which you now access these
words didn't exist, a decade ago.

Neuromancer was written on a "clockwork typewriter," the very one you
may recall glimpsing in Julie Deane's office in Chiba City. This
machine, a Hermes 2000 manual portable, dates from somewhere in the
1930's."

I assume this appears in an edition of MLO from 1992 or after.
Unfortunately, I cannot find a citation for this or any reference to a
foreword/afterword in the editions available to me in Ohio. I have
also checked Worldcat and several libraries with science fiction
collections (Liverpool, Riverside, TAMU, KU) for any reference to
this. The ISFDB lists a 1992 Bantam trade paperback edition and a 1995
Voyager/Harper Collins UK trade paperback edition--I wonder if it
appeared in either of these. If you have a later edition of MLO handy,
can you check it for this foreword or afterwork and please let me know
the bibliographic information including page numbers?

Many thanks,

Jason

-- 
Jason W. Ellis

PhD Candidate, Kent State University

Vice President, Science Fiction Research Association

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