Yeah, wealth can be a great boon for developing talent. It's annoying for the rest of us peasants, but talent is talent.... A rich kid may lack a hard-knock life, which is great fodder for writing. But, she or he may be privately tutored in, say, world literature from a young age and given 1-on-1 access to great minds.
I wouldn't say PKD is gravitas. He is often funny and has a workingman prose. Gibson, yes. Though, I find his later works, like Peripheral, less stylized and serious.
I barely remember 2049. I remember so much of the original. Ridley Scott and team created the world from scratch and mastered the atmosphere. 2049 is very good, but it's basically a requel.
For the hell of it, I looked at the Chinese translation offered in the nav. I can’t read Chinese, so I wonder what someone who can read it thinks, but it looks very cluttered to me. (I know font options are very limited compared to English.) Interestingly, it also uses different photos.
The book itself is called Which lie did I Tell? And although this bit comes quite early in the text (I should disclose it's been a couple decades since I've read it), the book is mainly biographical.
Its a fun and smart read, but doesn't devote more than maybe a chapter reflecting on this revelation, even though Goldman, who wrote it in all caps in the book (which is why I wrote it that way in my post), considered it his most important or influential observation.
