more important than the storyline. William Gibson later stated that "while the mini-series fell drastically short of the serial, it did produce one admirably peculiar literary artifact, The Wild Palms Reader" (to which he contributed). Both Stone and Gibson called Wagner the creative force behind the series. Production design The United States of the year 2007 as depicted in the series shows a strong influence of Japanese culture, such as in dress and interior and exterior design. Holograms of Miss Alabama and girl group The Supremes even bear Japanese facial features. Other interior details show the influence of Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). Deliberately anachronistic elements include 1960s cars (like Studebaker police vehicles) and Edwardian fashion. Cerruti 1881 provided costumes. Supplements Soundtrack album In addition to Ryuichi Sakamoto's music score, a number of 1960s rock and pop songs and classical compositions could be heard in the series. On the 1993 released soundtrack album, the following songs were included besides Sakamoto's music: The Zombies: She's Not There Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford: I Need Your Lovin' Frankie Valli: Can't Take My Eyes Off You Lou Christie: Lightnin' Strikes Mason Williams: Classical Gas The following songs and compositions can be heard in the series but are not featured on the album: The Animals: The House of the Rising Sun Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, Second Movement The 5th Dimension: Wedding Bell Blues The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones: No Expectations The Supremes: Love Child Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude Books A book, The Wild Palms Reader, was published by St. Martin's Press before the series aired. It included time lines, secret letters, and character biographies. ABC, concerned that viewers might get "hopelessly lost in the tangled story line", arranged for the primer to be published. It also included writing supposedly from the "world of the series". Contributors included: Norman Spinrad – sci-fi writer (Bug Jack Barron, The Iron Dream) Genesis P. Orridge (anonymous) – musician (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle) E. Howard Hunt – CIA officer involved in the Watergate Scandal, writer of spy/sci-fi novels William Gibson – sci-fi writer Brenda Laurel – virtual reality consultant on the mini-series Spain Rodriguez – 1960s underground comic artist (Trashman) Hans Moravec – scientist and writer in the artificial intelligence field While the comic series was published in book form in Germany, the Wild Palms