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Spiderman 2099

I vaguely recall the 90s effort of plopping Marvel superheroes into a cyberpunk future … looks like they’re at it again

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William Gibson and Martha Wainwright

Don’t know how I missed this last June, but Barnes and Noble does a series of author/musician reading/playing events and featured Gibson and Wainwright. 71 minutes long and haven’t checked it all out yet, but … facinating to be sure!

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Back from the Dead!

I love how dedicated Gibson fans are. Have seen this site in the past, but it bubbled up again as the 16th anniversary of Agrippa came to pass. Seems they found an ol’ floppy of the self-destructing poem and where able to rejigger it and run it again. And they took a movie of it [&hellip

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Virtual Citizens

How can we be better virtual citizens? Wherein the article tells briefly of Gibson’s experience in Second Life, on par with the first day at high school

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This Is Just Wrong. And I Must Have Them!

But I’ve never looked good in the classic sneaker, but c’mon,  a Buzz Rickson’s William Gibson sneaker?!?!?!

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Stephenson In LA Times

Interview with fountain-pen wielding writer extraordinare, Neil Stephenson. Still haven’t read Snow Crash, keep starting and stopping that one — it’s some kind of extreme Gibson loyalty that if were, forefend, to enjoy another big cyberpunkist, I’d be dissin William. Hmm. Not like I don’t read Sterling and uh, a bunch of others. Oh well, [&hellip

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Gibson Q&A

Just found this in his blog, William Gibson answering questions on a Barnes and Noble website

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Killswitch

Found this today in my news alerts, a review of the X-Files classic Gibson/Maddox written episode, Killswitch. And I totally agree with the write-up, yep, my fav X-File episode. Well that and the dude with the tail&#

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Hissss

Steampunk Anthology review in LA Times

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Charles Stross

A quick interview with Charles Stross in the Guardian yesterday. A pretty good take-way: “It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings,” he says. “Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.&#

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