Amazon now link to the Publishing Proposal Synopsis (.pdf - five pages) for the book which has eventually become Spook Country

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Warning: it bears only a slight (but fascinating) relation to the final novel.

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WARNING SPOILERS!!!!!

Don't read that proposal until after you've read the book.

Memetic, how about editing the title to indicate spoilers?

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Originally posted by Archie:
Memetic, how about editing the title to indicate spoilers?

Done.

Who is going to tell Amazon ?

Is it really necessary ? None of the character names are the same - I have no real idea about any plot similarities, as I have only read hints about this up till now.

Yeah, it's really necessary. I had read it before reading Spook Country, and it really took out a some of the suspense.

Has a BIG relation to SC. Do not read or it will spoil you.

My surprise it how DIFFERENT the proposal is to the final product. OK, there is a crucial surprise in SC that is revealed in the proposal, so DON'T READ IT YET! There's enough unused material in the proposal on which to base another novel! And I also seem to remember reading at least one of the excerpts from WG's blog that doesn't appear in the proof copy of SC.

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Originally posted by gil:
My surprise it how DIFFERENT the proposal is to the final product.

*nod* Hard to find any similarities at all. Especially the characters.

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There's enough unused material in the proposal on which to base another novel!

I like the idea about the warblogs.

Gibson mentioned in the interview, that it seems to be kind of a ritual. Most of the plot in the proposal is ... ermm ... Lets put it that way, the finished product is much more thought through ... complete.

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And I also seem to remember reading at least one of the excerpts from WG's blog that doesn't appear in the proof copy of SC.

As I started to ignore the excerpts very early on, can you point me to the one? (Might be worth a thread. - Depending.)