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At six feet five and 150 pounds, 'William Gibson is the beanstalk giant of cyberpunk whose novels have transformed the sci-fi scene.

Dennis Ashbaugh has weighed in on the cyber-scale with his massive replicas of DNA codes and computer viruses. After meeting last year, the Vancouver writer and the Manhattan artist began work on Agrippa: A Book of the Dead,a mind-bending collaboration that combines a series of Ashbaugh's otherworldly etchings—which mutate when exposed to light—and a computer disk containing a Gibson tale programmed to self-destruct when read. Is enjoying Agrippaworth destroying it? Chuckles Gibson, "Anyone who would purchase such an annoying contrivance deserves the quandary. " —-JIM RASENBERGER

JIM RASENBERGER