Mr. Gibson, how about stopping off in Salt Lake City? I'd be happy to introduce you to it's vicious underbelly. Won't take more than a few hours.

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Really, I truly felt like crying my little eyes out.

This past weekend I happened to be at a convention in Washington DC, and the day after the convention was the signing at the Border's Books in DC as well. Well, it happened to snow so much that they closed down the state, the highways and everything else. We were quarrantined to the hotel. I heard that they were giving $1000 fines to anyone who was going out driving. Althought, it was tempting to brave it. Even if I had to walk there! (LOL) So, if you feel like rescheduling for anywhere in the northeast, Mr. Gibson that would truly make my millenium. I have lots of books here needing a signature. :<

Also if anyone knows of any conventions that Gibson might be attending I'd really appreciate it. There's one next month in Stonybrook, NY at the state university. It has just about everything to do with SciFi, so I thought eveyone would be interested. Here's the website:

I-CON 22

But anyway,

C'est La Vie

Atlanta is a very ince city, it dosent snow very much down here, there are lots of nice hotels and a great many book stores. Yes Atlanta would be an excellent choice for a future stop in the tour. There are lots and lots of science fiction readers way down here who would really like a signed copy of the new book.

Yeah, and if you wanna see the current version of sub-urban BladeRunner, Atlanta is pretty much there! Especially the "freeways" during daylight hours.

But, probably a good location for a Gibson tour stop, y'all.

I'll be working the downtown signing. I begged to work it as soon as I heard about it, even though I work at a different store...

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Atlanta is a very ince city, it dosent snow very much down here, there are lots of nice hotels and a great many book stores.

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But you can't see any of them becuase of the god-awful humidity. No Mr. Gibson, come to SLC. We keep our snow restricted to areas where it can provide the most fun. Our humidity is really quite low as well. Just please get here before they up the beer taxes again. Otherwise no one will have enough money to buy your book.

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...the question.

The drama is too much; I will accept the inverse serendipity served to me lest I invoke waves of unchecked fandom causing uncontrolled retching and irritation of the braincage.

The way of the goddess that can be spoken... is not her true way.

He's got to come to and do the major cities at least.

Phew! Well, despite somehow not hearing about the book signing untill I checked the blog yesterday, I managed to make it! It was fun. Already VERY crowded when I arrived at 7:30 (The Start Time!). I managed to get a # (actually a page from a page-a-day calendar...May 16th to be exact ) and found a moderately unobstructed view for the reading.

The Q&A was fun. I had a hard time hearing half the questions, and half the answers I sort of knew from the blog. It was interesting to me, that Mr. Gibson said he needed to write this book in the present, and connect to it, in order to write another book about the future.

I was not able to find my copy of Neuromancer, (and now, thinking about it, I'm fairly certain I had a copy of Virtual Light at one point too) but I of course purchased Pattern Recognition, and found a nice copy of Idoru as well.

My Wife says she can't speak to me anymore because I had him sign the books to "GSeven aka Geoffrey". She says my geekdom has reached a new height (or is that low?). Oh well, too bad for her, she's stuck with me now.

For those of you who haven't been to a book signing before you usually can bring in your own books. Just make sure that the retailer knows that they are yours.

-GSeven

Go on then, there are other worlds than these!

http://iam.jackswastedlife.org

Went well. I managed to freeze up and not say the things to the man that I meant to say. Yay, me!

Things he said:

'I develop plots like you might be said to develop an illness.'

'Cowboy boots are not part of my conscious fashion fetish. Nothing like Rain Slickened Neon'

There was other stuff. He seemed jolly, and hardly in tupperware stance at all. The guy two in front of me had one of those rare neuromancer hardbacks, so that was cool. And when I asked gibson if I could give him an extremely short story i'd written, he said yes! ha HA! I expect one of the three outcomes:

1-he loses it
2-he reads it, thinks 'what a pile of pretentiously written shite' and then loses it
3-he reads it, thinks well of it, and then loses it.

but, personally, i just hope he enjoys it. And now i can say that i've met the man, and he is just a person, just like anyone else. only a really, really good writer. and funny. and more fond of neon than i think is healthy.

oh, one more thing he said that i thought was interesting. he said that up till now, his futures have been built up using the 80s as a base, and now that he's backed into a present day model, that he probably has a better platform from which to extrapolate. of course, he then went on to say that 'now' used to last for a few months, and could be used as a basis for future fiction, but that today's 'now' was so thin and insubstantial, that it couldn't really be built upon easily. interesting stuff for all us scifi writers, I think.

anyway, enough babbling. good day!

folks, did you know that ITS SUMMERTIME IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE???? no snow to ruin your plans!!! Come, come do a book tour through the lovely South America, and what a better country to start at than Chile, a thin, large piece of land with a solid economy now negotiating a free trade treaty with the United States of America.
Did I mentioned the tasty sea food and the kick ass wine?

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Quiero hacer contigo
lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.

Estërion, La Rata Feliz.

We can solve this whole problem by finding out where he lives and rushing him in a large, slavering mob, right? I'll bring donuts!

I am joking, of course.

He's got to hit the capitals, or at least give us a live video feed. Somebody get him a cameraphone...

Pattern Recognition rocks. Been walking around London spotting the places Cayce has been.

Surely a London Signing is a necessity?

Great news!
William Gibson will be in the UK and appearing at Waterstone's Nottingham on Wednesday 23rd April at 7.30pm and at Waterstone's Birmingham New Street on Friday 25th April at 7.00pm.

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Hear, hear.

Though generally speaking visits to foreign countries are never part of regular booksigning tours at the release of a new book, we can still hope for a European tour after that. Might break the chain of only fantasy authors coming to the Netherlands...

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Clearwater, FL is lovely this time of year

Birmingham? Nottingham? What about London? Can we petition? Oh will our electronic voices be heard?

I'm thinking Waterstones in Camden, or Oxford Street: it seems only fitting!

In the mean time... I go off to book my train tickets for Birmingham...

yea dude i think we should petition

Waterstones said that they don't have him booked for london but this could be because he's booked by someone else/ possible/ however they couldn't tell me who the only hint waterstones could give me was talking to him publisher/ Viking

well they don't even have a website for the uk or at all/ as far as i could see/ never mind how the hell to contact them

i'm getting real frustrated as i'd really like to catch up with him while his here but i can't get my ass out of london during the week

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Birmingham? Nottingham? What about London? Can we petition? Oh will our electronic voices be heard?

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P.S: Gibson you know we love you man/ but for the guy who "invented" the word cyberspace you internet presence is crap

...nothing

as far as i can tell viking own penguin UK which publishes pattern recognition in the uk/ their site is ok but although they have a few authors on tour through london this year william gibson is not one of them

i'm shoked and horified

Relax.

It is possible that the schedule has not yet been finalized. The book is not available in the UK until the 24th of April. Book signings are often not set in stone until closer to the date. Will try to get more info from Penguin UK and post here.

You're way off base on your other point-

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The author has been highly visible here, for months, sharing his thoughts. That's presence.

If you go back to page 4 in this forum, you will find a discussion of whether the Danish cover of "Mønstergenkendelse" is a good example of branding or not?

Anway I took a look at my bookshelf and saw

the backcover of "Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope 1899-1999"

which is what subconciously probably set me off....

By the way...the real cover of "Hey Nostradamus" isn't much better than the crap I made for fun....