By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:34:29 +0000

I never thought to look up a book while I was reading it. It might actually help with ‘Wicked’ because that book has some random words in it that he made up and doesn’t explain..

By: Memetic Engineer

Memetic Engineer — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:50:44 +0000

You can get an impression of what the book is like by reading the hypertext linked “spoiler” commentary at patternboy’s node.tumblr.com (http: // node.tumblr.com)
or my extra annotations and commentary on that commentary.
(https: // s.p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spookcountry/spook_country_hyperlink_cloud_annotations/)
You can get an idea of the effect of this blog style “future of literary criticism” which we unwittingly seemed to have pioneered, by reading my annotated version of Professor John Sutherland’s article in the Education supplement of The Guardian.
“William Gibson’s “Spook Country”annotations via Node Magazine, node.tumblr.com and SpookCountry.co.uk – “the future of literary criticism”, according to Professor John Sutherland”
(https: // s.p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spookcountry/2007/09/node_magazine_nodetumblrcom_and_spookcountrycouk_the_future_of_literary_criticism_according_to_professor_john_sutherland.html)
Both of these hyperlink annotation projects by fans, not by literary academics, give possible critical journey routes through the novel which may well influence future academic analysis.
Remember that the Google and Wikipedia and other local knowledge sources were brought to bear on a nineteenth century technology Advance Reader Copy / Uncorrected Proof Copy model of book publishing, which reached the dedicated fans ahead of publication, only really via eBay auctions.
What will happen when, say, William Gibson’s next book is published first as an e-book ?
N.B. it is a shame that your blog software settings are filtering out hyperlinks

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By: Amy

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