↑Bruce Sterling currently is jotting down ↑notes for a projected science fiction novel—maybe we again can, ↵like ↵before, witness a novel by a cyberpunk legend grow online. As a first Sterling published a list of political entities, plus according structuring principles and asked his readers: “Lemme know if you can think of more of these. Especially something that could plausibly replace the ↑Westphalian system, somewhere in the 21st century, without anybody much noticing.” Meanwhile he has recieved some ↑reader comments on ‘after westphalia’—now I have to make a new t-shirt for my “↑Second Life“ (SL) avatar, reading: “↑John Romero and Bruce Sterling ↵talked to me!”