The sky above the port was the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel

It's Which-X-Are-You time again!

I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.

Which science fiction writer are you?

So, ya married Norm Sun-of-a-Gunnarson, eh?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central   "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
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Well, not so much mistaken for Canadian, there...