Zero History :: September 7, 2010

Amazon.com has a pre-order placeholder for William Gibson’s novel-in-progress tenatively titled Zero History with a targeted release date of September 7, 2010 [thanks to Memetic Engineer at the Zero History blog].

Posted at 9:45 am on February 6, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: SpookCountry novel, nodeNews | read on

NODE of Old News

Just found this reference to the 06/09/2007 Washington Post article by — Joel Garreau [thanks to AfterCyberPunk]:
‘Gibson says: “One of the biggest technologically driven changes in my writing is the awareness that every text today has a kind of spectral quasi-hypertext surrounding it.” It is “all of the Googled information that found its way into [...]

Posted at 12:44 pm on January 27, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: SpookCountry novel, nodeNews | read on

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In January 2007, patternboy appealed to the William Gibson discussion board in the hopes of creating a multi-author blog where other Gibson fans could post stories in the Spook Country universe as those who live there.

Since then, the original NODE has been hailed as “the future of literary criticism” by legendary critic John Sutherland and called “cheap A.I.” and “genuinely new” by William GIbson himself [see Sutherland | Gibson interview]. NODE also inspired a wikipedia article and a mirror site by Memetic Engineer [who has already set up a Zero History site for Gibson's current WIP].

Thanks for helping make NODE the magazine that it is not but yet to be. – H.B.

[NOTE: For even more detail re: the evolution of this blog, please view Is NodeMagazine Mostly About NodeMagazine?]

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