We've been able to provide video capture of a complete emulation of the AGRIPPA poem running in its custom-built encryption software, recovered using a forensic copy process from one of the original diskettes loaned by a collector:

http://agrippa.english.ucsb.ed...running-in-emulation

For more detail:

http://agrippa.english.ucsb.ed...-sources-for-agrippa

If you don't know about AGRIPPA:

http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/

Enjoy!

That's so wrong it's right! The future of sci-fi is going backwards.

Seems to be Slashdotted at the moment. I'll have to try again later.

A version that continually deletes/encrypts itself in emulation? Cyberspace Groundhog Day.

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The full text of Agrippa has been here since the site started:

http://www.WilliamGibsonBooks.com/source/agrippa.asp

Though the above is a worthy effort...

The site got slashdotted. Boing Boing and Bruce Sterling on Wired also picked it up, among others. The server is back now, at least for the moment. ;-)

Yes, the text of the poem is available on WG's site, as it is in innumerable other locales around the internet. We were very clear on that in the announcement. But reading a novel in a Penguin paperback is not the same as handling the manuscript or the first edition--same idea here.

The text of the poem also takes on some new dimensions in its original interface: an illustrated title page and sound effects, for instance.

I love that you made the disk image itself available. Nicely done. The Slashdotting is over, so I've had a chance to check the site out.

So how come it seems to be OK to republish AGRIPPA, which was supposed to never be read again, but apparently is not OK to republish Skinner's Room or Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City, which remain unavailable to me just by the vagaries of chance and publishing?

(I'm not scolding you, M. Kirshenbaum, I'm just whining about not getting to read the other stories.)

I want to read the Hippy Hat and Skinner's Room and all the others I do not have.

I think I have 13 Views still on file though.

Wonderful. Thank you for the quicktime movie.

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Originally posted by UberDog:
I want to read the Hippy Hat and Skinner's Room and all the others I do not have.

I think I have 13 Views still on file though.

Trade you for Skinner's Room? Legit copy, karma neutral.

That may be the most awesome thing I've seen all year.

Hippy Hat Parasite- Semiotexte SF- Still on print



13 views- Rewired Anthology- Published 2008


"Buy SF books"

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Thanks RUR!