[lobster_johnson]

I'm the opposite — I wish there were more writers who were capable of writing with the same kind of rich texture as Gibson.

J. G. Ballard comes close; The Atrocity Exhibition is very Gibsonesque in places, though with a much bleaker sense of alienation than anything Gibson wrote. Cormac McCarthy is also great, though not like Gibson at all.

People seem to like Neal Stephenson's early work (Snow Crash in particular), but I was always put off by his apparent plagiarizing of Gibson's style.

Edit: Also James Ellroy.

[pault]

I thought Gibson and Stephenson were plagiarizing Pynchon's style.

[blackbagboys]

It always struck me as more 'parody' than 'plagiarism'.