Hi to all of you,
I was tipped off (thanks Mark) that William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer", "Count Zero", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "The Difference Engine" (with Bruce Stirling), "Virtual Light", "Idoru", "All Tomorrow's Parties", and "Pattern Recognition", was going to be signing copies of his latest book "Spook Country".
A couple of years ago armed with my trusty security bit screwdriver I managed to obtain a London transport CCTV poster.
It turns out that William Gibson had put on his blog that he was after the very same poster. So...I went to the book signing with my poster and traded it for a hardback copy of his book which he then wrote a dedication in it to me :-)
The dedication says:
To Reverend Rat with extreme gratitude for his generosity and security tool!W M. Gibson
29 Aug '07
London
That's it for now, thanks for dropping in, speak to you all soon.
Yours
The Reverend Rat +:-)
More pictures from the Forbidden Planet book signing event on Wednesday 29th August 2007:
Danacea from Forbidden Planet has a nice blog posting and Flickr photo gallery, about this signing event and the "Secure Beneath The Watchful Eyes" poster":
Danacea's Flicker photo gallery.
William Gibson has another thankyou to The Reverend Rat in his blog posting wrapping up the Spook Country book tour- It's a wrap Sunday 21st October 2007
A couple more photos of this event have now been posted on the William Gibson discussion board (new) Hacking the Gibson in London... again thread.
William Gibson tweeted on Thu May 20 18:20:54 +0000 2010
Zero History, the sequel to Spook Country is due to be published on 7th September 2010, so William Gibson may well be signing books again in London, some time between then and Christmas 2010.