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   From: nospamschwann@webtrance.co.!za   
      
   gibson probably still uses a typwriter, he's said to like the noise it   
   makes....i wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any published authors to   
   pop in here...they're all scared of you guys on usenet, and with good   
   reason:)   
      
   schwann   
      
   Read on Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk   
      
   syber@cogeco.ca (syber) wrote in message news:   
   syber wrote:   
      
   > > > gibson's last blog was friday sept 12 2003...he appears to be getting   
   > > > ready to write another book   
   > >   
   > > Great news!  I was looking at the release dates of Gibson's previous novels   
   > > to get an idea when we might see the next one...   
   > >   
   > > Neuromancer            1984   
   > > Count Zero             1986   
   > > Mona Lisa Overdrive    1988   
   > > The Difference Engine  1991   
   > > Virtual Light          1993   
   > > Idoru                  1996   
   > > All Tomorrow's Parties 1999   
   > > Pattern Recognition    2003   
   > >   
   > > So it looks like 2006 would be about right for the next novel.  (Too long   
   > > to wait!)  Are there any rumors about the next book?  Will it be a   
   > > sequel to PATTERN RECOGNITION?   
   >   
   >   
   > this is all gibson says in his final blog : Perhaps I'll be back, one   
   > day, somewhere on the far side of whatever it is I'm about to start   
   > writing.   
      
   FINAL blog?   Was it a genuine blog or just   
   another case of a successful author trying to get   
   some authentic net credentials while advertising   
   his latest effort?  I mean no disrespect to Mr.   
   Gibson, but I have had it with self-promoting   
   authors whose only actions in the most creative   
   and non-commercial parts of the net are aimed at   
   selling books while pretending to be a serious   
   participant.   For instance, we had a case   
   like that in alt.writing.   A "big name" in   
   writing made a couple of posts to the m.w. group.   
   Ostensibly, he was "discussing," but all he   
   was really doing was publicizing the fact that   
   he was going to try selling his latest book on   
   a website.   When readers to the group took   
   him seriously, he never even bothered to respond   
   to his follow-up, which he probably didn't even   
   bother to read.  Plainly, he was doing nothing   
   but pitching his book and trying to authenticate   
   his net credentials.  So, when you talk about   
   Mr. Gibson's final blog, I have to ask, is   
   that the last installment in a marketing plan,   
   or was he truly trying to swim in the   
   thoughtstream?  (I would prefer to read a post   
   of response by Mr. Gibson, but in lieu of that   
   I welcome responses from any alt.cyberpunk reader   
   who has the intellectual capacity to do more than   
   growl a couple of insults indicating that I have   
   pushed his buttons...)   
      
      
   the alt.genius.bill-palmer   
   --currently posting from the upstairs   
   office at rec.arts.prose   
      
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