From Penguin UK, this is the information about Mr. Gibson's appearances in April. I will try to fill in with greater detail as I can get it.
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Tuesday 22nd April
Evening event in Dublin. Venue tbc

Wednesday 23rd April
Evening event at Waterstone's in Nottingham

Thursday 24th April
Evening event at the Congress Centre, organised by Foyles bookshop, in
central London.

Friday 25th April
Evening event at Waterstone's in Birmingham.

Saturday 26th April
Lunch time signing at Forbidden Planet, London.

Would that be this Congress Centre do you think?

For anyone thinking of going there who's not been to a Forbidden Planet signing in London before, and who cares about their books, bring a decent bag. (And an umbrella). They have almost no floorspace, so if there's anything like a decent turnout, you'll be queueing down the street outside (when Terry Pratchett signs the queueing time outside is three to four hours), and if it's raining it can be a problem .

Tiger,

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jaydee

thanks for that tiger

now i can shut up and keep my offensive comments to myself

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Originally posted by Blakkandekka:
Would that be http://www.congresscentre.co.uk/htm/Congress2.htm Congress Centre do you think?

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looks like it/ as best as i can tell

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Originally posted by AdamW:
For anyone thinking of going there who's not been to a Forbidden Planet signing in London before, and who cares about their books, bring a decent bag. (And an umbrella). They have almost no floorspace, so if there's anything like a decent turnout, you'll be queueing down the street outside

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certainly when i happened to be in london at the time of the idoru signing i found myself cueing outside. but then i also bought the book once i got inside, so that saved some hassle.
ptr

I was looking forward to a Belfast visit for WG, bit as I'm off uni when his Dublin visit's on i'll be seeing him after all!

A.

[This message was edited by ath on March 09, 2003 at 07:28 AM.]

Would this be Forbidden Planet?

Typical two signings in London and not one in Scotland

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Originally posted by atomictonytiki:
Typical two signings in London and not one in Scotland

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yup - would have been nice.

Martin - yup, that's the one. If you ever go to a Terry Pratchett signing there, you get very familiar with the camera shop that you can see on the left hand side of the picture . The setup for big signings is there's a long queue going down the street that way (and, if necessary, round a corner and down some side streets further down) and a nice bloke on the front door lets people into the shop in groups of five or so at a time, who go straight in to a reserved space where the author is signing. That way the store can carry on with normal business for people not there for the signing. I expect since Mr. Gibson's not been around for a while, the turnout will be big enough to merit that kind of treatment.

I went to a Forbidden Planet Neal Stephenson signing a few years back. (This was when "The Diamond Age "had just been published: around 1994 or 1995). On this case I went to Forbidden Planet, and was told that Stephenson was in a nearby pub. I then went to the pub, where he signed my books. (This now seems kind of surreal, but I am sure it is what happened).

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Originally posted by atomictonytiki:
Typical two signings in London and not one in Scotland

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yup - would have been nice.

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gah, it certainly would have

olly

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Mr Gibson is probably terrified of the Scots, its the thought of weegies on quadruple expressos

@Mick Jennings.Have you read Criptonomicon by Stephenson ?

Idoru or Bust!

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Originally posted by tiger68:
Tuesday 22nd April
Evening event in Dublin. Venue tbc

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Any more information on this???

A.

Foyles Bookshop ad in The Guardian last sauturday:

Thursday 24th April
WG reading from PR at 7PM at the Congress Centre on Great Russell Street, London.
Tickets £5.
Call 0870 420 2777 to book a place.

Tuesday 22nd April
Evening event in Dublin. Venue tbc
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Any more information on this???

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Unfortunately I don't think there will be a Dublin event, I mailed Penguin Ireland and got the following -

"....Yes, William Gibson will indeed be coming to Dublin later this month, but
will be primarily doing press interviews for his new novel, Pattern
Recognition.
He will not be doing an event unfortunately. ..."

a\x

Anyone here going to the Foyles event? I got my ticket in the post yesterday.