William Gibson interview: Rewriting history

In the middle of writing Agency he had to stop and change it because of real world events, in this case the election of Twitler. So he had to create a time-travel of sorts trope to handle it. When he said the following it is exactly what has always happened in history: That is, change the so-called facts of it to promote your propaganda. We see it in the US with conservatives trying to erase the teaching of racism in history classes, as well as trying to reframe the Jan. 6 insurrection as well-meaning, peaceful protesters. Good thing the Jan. 6 committee has today started to bring out what really happened so that the fascists cannot believably rewrite it.

"My specific time travel gimmick in these books is that it’s impossible to physically visit the past, so you have to do it digitally. But immediately on contacting the past you create a stub, because that contact didn’t happen in your past so you create an alternate history. And that spares me all of that tedious paradoxical stuff that bogs down time travel stories."