Sci-fi author William Gibson recently talked to Speakeasy about his new collection of essays, and we took the opportunity to ask his thoughts on the controversial Internet-antipiracy bill, SOPA.

"I'm not by any means an enemy of intellectual property, and in fact keep a roof over my head because the concept exists," says Gibson, the author of "Neuromancer," in which he coined the term, "cyberspace." "But I think that SOPA as it stands now, or as it stood before they paused to think about it, is extremely ill thought out, and...