Zero History

Some recent Zero History tweets by William Gibson

• https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/21071771903

  RT @lighthed @GreatDismal Bigend's preferred method of travel? http://bit.ly/b1jS2M [HB is moving on to an Ekranoplan. Early September.]

  Fri Aug 13 15:14:03 +0000 2010

• https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/21010989672

  RT @jaypea_aitken: @GreatDismal when can I get my paws on Zero History in the UK? [Sept 7]

  Thu Aug 12 22:30:43 +0000 2010

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  https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/20943831373

  RT @MatiasBuselli: @GreatDismal is the UK edition of Zero History different from the US, besides the cover? [Not that I know of.]

  Thu Aug 12 03:46:21 +0000 2010

• https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/21010989672

  @paparatti Used to be about a year, til paperback? Actually, I don't know when, for Zero History.

  Wed Aug 11 18:21:14 +0000 2010

Posted by Memetic Engineer at 10:17 AM | Permalink

Hat tip to Node Magazine:

YouTube video trailer for Zero History:

Prepare for ZERO HISTORY by William Gibson

"Someone is developing what may prove to be a somewhat new way to transmit brand vision."
"A certain genuinely provocative use of negative space.

"Who?"

"I don't kno," he said. "I haven't been able to find out.I feel that someone has read and understood my playbook. And may possibly be extending it.

"Then send Pamela. She understands all that. Or someone else."

"But that is exactly it. Because they 'understand all that' they won't find the edge. they won't find the new. And worse, they'll trample on it, inadvertently crush it, beneath a certain mediocrity inherent in professional competence."
"I need a wild card. I need you."
"Does 'The Gabriel Hounds' mean anything to you?"

Posted by Memetic Engineer at 2:41 PM | Permalink

Yet another hat tip to the inestimable Fashion Police, for again spotting this before us:

Festival of Ideas: William Gibson

Wed 06 Oct, 18:15

William Gibson is the bestselling author of 10 novels. His first, Neuromancer, sold more than six million copies worldwide and his books and short stories continue to reach massive audiences and win just about every award going. He coined the term cyberspace and is credited with predicting the rise of reality television and establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. His comment - 'The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed' - first made in 2003 continues to be used widely. He has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians and has influenced many other authors as well as design, academia, cyberculture, technology, and the film The Matrix. His new book, Zero History, set largely in London, spookily captures the paranoia and fear of our post-Crash, late Capitalist times. A rare opportunity to see one of the world's finest writers, someone who has had, and continues to have, huge influence in the making and understanding of the modern world.

Fee: £7.00 full / £5.50 concessions.

A Festival of Ideas event presented in partnership with Watershed.

Location:

FOI: William Gibson
Wednesday, 6/10/10, 6:15PM

Watershed
Work1 Canon's Road,
Harbourside,
Bristol
BS1 5TX

Watershed directions and map

(The acronym "FOI" normally means "Freedom of Information" rather than "Festival of Ideas")

Will William Gibson mention interesting local developments like the Bristol graffiti scene which spawned Banksy ?

Posted by Memetic Engineer at 9:57 PM | Permalink