… and I missed it. On 02 August 2007 the godfather of cyberpunk, ↑William Gibson, publicly read from his freshly published, latest novel “Spook Country”—read live in “↑Second Life“ (SL). The event was ↑staged by Penguin, and on YouTube there are several documentations of it. To my eye the best one is “↑William Gibson enters Cyberspace“ by Munich’s very own musician, composer, and audio producer ↑Bernhard “draxtordespres” Drax. Then there are “↑Gibson reads from Spook Country in SL “, “↑Answers from William Gibson in cyberspace“, and “↑Answers from William Gibson in cyberspace part II“—documentations in the strict sense of … Continue reading →