Tuesday
Aug212007
Spook Country
Tuesday 21 August, 2007
'Proposal for a novel by William Gibson
“Warchalker” is one of the more obscure and peculiar of the
many warblogs and news-filters that sprang up on the Web in
the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Obscure because it
generally offers little more than the apparent result of
some news-junkie sitting in a basement, endlessly splicing
in links to the latest-breaking from AP, Reuters or other
standard sources. Peculiar because the thread of routine
news is occasionally interrupted by some deeply strange
dispatch from Warchalker himself -- as, for instance, his
first-person account of the looting of the Baghdad museum,
involving any number of international art-mercenaries and
at least two supposedly extraterrestrial artifacts.'
Link to rest of proposal
Link to novel (published 2nd August 07)
“Warchalker” is one of the more obscure and peculiar of the
many warblogs and news-filters that sprang up on the Web in
the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Obscure because it
generally offers little more than the apparent result of
some news-junkie sitting in a basement, endlessly splicing
in links to the latest-breaking from AP, Reuters or other
standard sources. Peculiar because the thread of routine
news is occasionally interrupted by some deeply strange
dispatch from Warchalker himself -- as, for instance, his
first-person account of the looting of the Baghdad museum,
involving any number of international art-mercenaries and
at least two supposedly extraterrestrial artifacts.'
Link to rest of proposal
Link to novel (published 2nd August 07)
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