Sought out primarily as backstory to Gibson's concept of the Bay Bridge, iconic for the later Bridge Trilogy, but also for any characters common to both. I read it with interruptions so my grasp of its linkages is spotty, but I sense it's not fully consistent with what ended up in the Trilogy itself, an altogether unsurprising fact.

My copy from the OMNI version; the text was first published in another version as part of the exhibit catalogue for Visionary San Francisco exhibit (SFMOMA 1990). Gibson's story prompted architects Ming Fung and Craig Hodgetts to scale up a version of the Bridge, and the exhibit featured a recording of Gibson reading the story aloud. Evidently the exhibit influenced Gibson's later trilogy in significant ways, so a nicely recursive dynamic at play. ( )