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Virtual Citizens

Ling November 1, 2008 Culture, News / Essays

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!

Ling October 14, 2008 Authors, Culture

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

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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

Ling July 23, 2008 Authors

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

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Killswitch

Ling July 22, 2008 General Cyberpunk, TV/Film

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

Ling June 23, 2008 Books, Steampunk

Steampunk Anthology review in LA Times

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Charles Stross

Ling June 11, 2008 Authors, Books, Interviews

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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The Future of Gaming

Ling May 27, 2008 Games

How can you go wrong with a blog entry that instantly quotes both William Gibson … and Dan Quayle! Well, nevermind, but The Age has an interesting read on some future trends in gaming, with somewhat of an Australian slant but still some good insights and trend analysis. And a mention of the long hyped [&hellip

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How Many Do You Recognize?

Ling May 21, 2008 Culture, News / Essays

PC World has a pretty good list of the Top 50 Tech Visionaries, and admittedly, there were more than half that were unknown to me — not as big a geek as I thought I was! But yep, holding his own at No. 48 …. William Gibson!

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Kelly McCullough puts out 2 new books…

Enoc May 19, 2008 Books

I have already read Kelly’s first book WebMage (book 1 in her Ravirn series) and I will have to say I enjoyed it. I particularly like the way she combines technology and magic. There is always the problem of too much Deus Ex Machina though and not enough clever writing but I think that goes [&hellip