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Zero history blog
Zero History blog - http://ZeroHistory.net
- documenting and analysing William Gibson's current novel in progress, with some London / UK locations already.
Spook Country blog
Spook Country blog - htpp://SpookCountry.co.uk
This documents and analyses William Gibson's novel Spook Country which has some London locations, and from which this London CyberPunk Tourist Guide was spawned.
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- Bloomsbury (4)
- Blue Plaques (11)
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- Camden Town (2)
- Centre Point (7)
- Charing Cross Road (6)
- Chelsea (1)
- Chinatown (3)
- Covent Garden (6)
- Croydon (9)
- Cyber (5)
- Defunct (1)
- Docklands (3)
- Drink - bars and public houses (8)
- Embankment (1)
- Fictional Spook locations (9)
- Fitzrovia (4)
- Food restaurants and shops (4)
- Foreign Embassies and Spooks (6)
- Ground Zero - the book signing venues (4)
- Heathrow Airport (1)
- Holborn (3)
- Internet and WiFi (6)
- Introduction (2)
- Kensington (3)
- Knightsbridge (1)
- London 2600 (1)
- Marylebone (5)
- Mayfair (12)
- Mobile Phones (1)
- Museums and Exhibitions (2)
- Parliament Square (1)
- Piccadilly (2)
- Polonium-210 (15)
- Punk (2)
- re-gooding / gentrification (1)
- Shoreditch (4)
- Soho (3)
- South Bank (2)
- St. James's (3)
- Telecomms & Internet Infrastructure (5)
- Temporary Autonomous Zone (1)
- Tottenham Court Road (3)
- United Kingdom Intelligence Agencies (3)
- Vauxhall (1)
- Victoria (2)
- Whitehall (2)
- WiFi and BlueTooth etc. (1)
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Recent Entries
- CyberPunk Tourist Guide to London - Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Trompe l'oeil /graffiti street art style mural for a Locksmith / Safe shop
- #guardiancoffee - The Guardian newspaper, coffee & Apple iPads
- The Vape Lab: e-cigarettes & coffee & WiFi
- The Old Shoreditch Station - first BitCoin ATM in London
- Google UK offices via Google Street View etc.
- Charing Cross Road: Cambridge Circus to Centre Point
- Cambridge Circus - John le Carré's "the Circus"
- Heywood Hill and Trumper's - Curzon Street
- 9 and 10 Bywater Street, Chelsea - George Smiley's flat
- Centre Point / Tottenham Court Road Station re-development demolitions - Astoria Theatre, Internet Lounge etc.
- Heathrow - Southall Hayes Tesco superstore automated recycling machines
- Croydon: Maplin Electronics by West Croydon station
- Croydon: Forbidden Planet opposite West Croydon station
- Croydon: High Speed Access internet cafe near West Croydon station
- Croydon: Time*Bomb emo, punk, goth fashion clothing and accessories
- Croydon: Lunar House and Apollo House - UK Border Agency
- Croydon: Electric House - Home Office UK Border Agency
- Croydon: Greyhound / Blue Orchid - defunct punk rock venue
- Croydon: Cyberzone Internet Cafe - now defunct ?
- Croydon: Black Sheep Bar - fingerprint scanning private members alternative music venue - avoid !
- Orbital Comics - Great Newport Street
- London Gathering Hall for Monster Hunter players (Sony PSP WiFi games console) - a Temporary Autonomous Zone ?- now closed
- Centre Point
- Home House Club, Portman Square
- 39 Furnival Street - entrance to Kingsway secret tunnels
- John Adams House - 9 Grosvenor Square - the lair of Tony Blair
- Blue Plaque - John Harrison - Marine Chronometer - Red Lion Square
- Penguin Books - 80 The Strand - Shell Mex House
- Zone One - dystopian underground brazilian cyber cafe
- Polonium-210 Parkes Hotel Knightsbridge
- Polonium-210 Dar Marrakesh restaurant
- Polonium-210 - Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
- Polonium-210 - Hey Jo "Gentleman's Club"
- London 2600 - monthly meetings
- Blue Plaque - Alan Turing - Hampton High Street
- Docklands - Harbour Exchange Square
- South Bank - Waterloo Station
- Mobile Phones - Base Station transmitter masts in Central London
- Docklands Teleport - Satellite Earth Station
- Telehouse(s)
- British Telecom Tower
- Belgravia - David Blunkett's Disgrace and Favour house
- Centre Point - Internet Lounge [update - now demolished]
- Charing Cross Road - Mocha Cafe Patisserie and Internet Cafe
- Tottenham Court Road - EasyInternetCafe
- Fitzrovia - Be The Reds / Cyberia cyber cafe [currently shut]
- Charing Cross Hotel - Sherlock Holmes
- Extended range WiFi antennas
- Waterloo Bridge - ricin umbrella murder of Georgi Markov
- Camden Town
- Camden Town - CyberDog
- Harry Palmer trilogy - Col. Ross's office overlooking Trafalgar Square
- British Museum
- Science Museum - The Difference Engine & The Science of Spying
- South Audley Street - The Spy Shop
- Spooks - Freemasons' Hall - 60 Great Queen Street
- Ian Fleming - James Bond 007 - 16 Victoria Square
- The Prisoner - Number Six's flat - 1 Buckingham Place
- The Prisoner - Abingdon Street Car Park Ramp
- Polonium-210 - the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
- Canadian High Commission
- Cuban Embassy
- USA Embassy
- Blue Plaques
- Russian Embassy
- Covent Garden - The Ivy - West Street
- Chinese Embassy
- Covent Garden - Neal's Yard
- Covent Garden - Monmouth Street and Seven Dials
- Soho - CroBar - Manette Street
- Chinatown - New Laughing Buddha restaurant - Macclesfield Street
- Chinatown - Gerrard Street
- CyberCandy - Garrick Street
- Blue Plaque: Sir Charles Wheatstone
- Security Service MI5 - Thames House
- Secret Intelligence Service MI6 - Vauxhall Cross
- Jeremy Bentham @ University College London
- Blue Plaque: Alan Turing
- Blue Plaque: Charles Babbage
- Blue Plaque: Ada, Countess of Lovelace
- Blue Plaque: John Logie Baird
- Blue Plaque: Samuel Morse
- Fitzrovia - BBC & George Orwell
- Tottenham Court Road - Goodge Street to Warren Street
- North along the Tottenham Court Road from Centre Point to Goodge Street
- Point 101 Bar - New Oxford Street
- The Intrepid Fox public house
- Polonium-210 University College Hospital, 250 Euston Road