The Penguin UK publisher's blog announces that William Gibson is to be promoted in the Second Life virtual reality multi-user online game.
Over the next few weeks - to celebrate and, yes, promote his new novel Spook Country - we're planning a range of William Gibson activities in Second Life; we're screening his fine and strange movie No Maps for These Territories; there's a competition to design an avatar for the man himself; we're giving away shipping containers packed with Gibson goodies
You can pack many tonnes of "William Gibson goodies" into a full sized 40 foot long Shipping Container - is that what they are really promising ?
and at the beginning of August, William Gibson himself will be coming into Second Life to read from Spook Country and answer questions.If you want to join in, log into Second Life, join the Penguin Readers group or get in touch with me virtually by sending an IM to Jeremy Neumann. We're looking forward to sharing a consensual hallucination with you.
Jeremy Ettinghausen, Digital Publisher
I spoke with Jeremy inworld, and asked whether the shipping containers were IRL or SL, and he said that they were in Second Life only, and proceeded to ask me what in the world I would do with a 40 foot shipping container.
I told him I had a big yard. :-)
@ Fashionpolice - sending out a single copy of Spook Country or other "Gibson goodies", packed in a 40 foot shipping container (which are not that expensive to buy second hand) might be a bit over the top.
Presumably the amount of "Gibson goodies" being given away is orders of magnitude less than what could be packed into a 40 foot (or even 20 foot) standard shopping container ?