Zero History

The William Gibson Discussion Board (WGB), members who met up for the Forbidden Planet book signing on Saturday 9th October 2010, decided to annotate a signed copy of Zero History as a "Drop Book".

We chose Caffè Nero at Seven Dials, London, which is where Milgrim is photographed by DCIS Agent Winnie for the Drop.

Within a few seconds of the Drop, it was snapped up by a member of the public called Tammy, who had recently purchased a copy of Spook Country in order to catch up with her reading of William Gibson's works, so it went to an ideal first reader.

Hopefully she will feed back some comments either here or to the other annoted URLs, and will then pass the book on to someone else.

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On Tuesday 5th October 2010, at Foyles, in London, William Gibson read Zero History Chapter 16. Honor Bar, where Milgrim and Special Agent Winnie Tung Whitaker, of the Department of Defence, Office of the Inspector General, Defence Criminal Investigative Service "DCIS" agree to communicate electronically using a couple of (already registered and real) Twitter accounts

He mentioned that few people so far amongst the fans and critics on this book tour had asked about Winnie, perhaps, he speculated, because she is one of the few characters in his writings who is not a freelancer (or a billionaire), has a bureaucratically constrained job and has children to support.

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