William Gibson's Blog

June 2, 2009

May 31, 2009

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. We lie daily, very complexly, and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, we would be quite difficult to deceive.
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May 30, 2009

On Twitter, as GreatDismal.

I will get it hooked up here, eventually. Too busy in the gomi-strewn book-building hangar at present to sort that out.
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May 27, 2009

May 26, 2009

Zero History, a novel in progress, by William Gibson



image: Alan Nazarian, 2009
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May 22, 2009

May 15, 2009

May 12, 2009

Bigend’s office, when Milgrim was finally ushered in, was windowless and surprisingly small. Perhaps it wasn’t that specifically his office, Milgrim thought. It didn’t look like an office anyone worked in.

The Swedish boy who’d brought Milgrim in put a gray folder on the teak desk and left silently. There was nothing else on the desk except for a stubby combat shotgun that appeared to have been made from solidified Pepto-Bismol.
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May 3, 2009

Is one of those phenomena that don't easily yield to journalism. Its experiential nature is participatory. People tend to like things like that a lot, to the annoyance of journalists.

Random Twitter factoid: bbcbreaking has (this morning) 90023 followers, but is following only 1 (one).
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May 1, 2009

I've been on Twitter for a little while now. Under the nom-de-twit GreatDismal (no space). I had not much of an idea what Twitter was, when I first went there, so signed in under a flag of convenience. Still have no idea what it is, or where it's going, but will hang on to GreatDismal for simplicity's sake. At some point I might figure out how to incorporate it here, but then again maybe not.

I feel a bit self-conscious, pausing in the course of my day to recommend a particular make and model (an
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