As patternboy explains his Node Magazine countdown project, publishing some deliberately limited quotations and chapter summaries each day until the official US publication date of Spook Country on August 7th 2007 is now complete.
I have been intrigued by the idea of reading the book in a search engine enhanced hyptext hypetext hypertext manner, and have contributed my own comments and observations on the node.tumblr.com published text.
I would like to thank patternboy for all his hard work, and I share his excitement that the project has attracted the attention of the author William Gibson himself.
William Gibson's recent interviews where he revealed how important the use of web search engines was for his writing process, is almost certainly going to be true for lots of other authors in the future as well.
In terms of technology, this could have been done using a Wiki or blog or bulletin board software which allows comments or edits from other authors, but that does not really matter too much.
This is how many readers will read fiction in the future, just like many of us read non-fiction news and current affairs articles now.
It is noticeable how many of the mainstream media's book reviews (sadly almost all from the USA rather than from the UK where they still seem to be ignoring Spook Country ) also have used Google or other online resources to help write their reviews.
I shall write my own review of Spook Country soon enough, but whilst it crystallises in my mind, I am working on my promised CyberPunk guide to central London, for the benefit of fans who are swarming there from out of town and from overseas, for the book promotion events on 28th and 29th of August.