The Last test… Just sent. Wondering if I've made a mistake? Nope, no this time. Do you want to know why I would say something like this? Well, I'll tell you right away. Gibson's imagination is just overwhelming, but even so, he is also deeply intertextual. He loves referring to words that echo his own creations, he admires for example Ted Mooney's proto-cyberpunk creation, "Easy to travel to other Planets" (1981) because he gives us quotes from all the sources he uses and has used to write his book. Lance Olsen also said these words, extremely interesting…

"For a writer like Gibson, the world is obviously less one of plagiarism than what Raymond Federman refers to as pla(y)giarism, a freeplay of suspension and acceptance, an acknowledgment that the universe is one of intertextuality where no one text has any more or less authority than any other. Writing becomes retro-writing. Language and ideas, like glass bottles and aluminium cans, become recyclable"

Truly interesting to find an author that uses intertextuality as a very important element in his creations, and this is (obviously) strongly related to what we were talking about in the last test we sent the listserv related to Copyright and the use of creative products of some artists by other individuals to create their own products. Though his influences don't stop in intertextuality and other literary elements in Sci-Fi. However, if you would like to understand better the concept of intertextuality you can click here and discover a very important part of semiotics…

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem09.html