William Gibson is a literary genius
I love reading Gibson.  His prose is brilliant.<p>In his book "Pattern Recognition" he spends the first page and half describing jet-lag in such brilliant manner that you feel like you just experienced art.<p>Unfortunately I feel his plot/stories never seem to hold up.  
I will always consider him an artist.  Something to savor.  I've always felt that it was superior to true 'literature' in that each word is a morsel that adds to the whole and not up to the interpretation of the reader.