Get Your William Gibson Tickets Now

William Gibson will be reading at the Brattle Theatre on Sunday, August 19, at 6:00 pm. Tickets are available through Harvard Book Store. You might want to call them at 617-661-1515 if any are left. He will also read at Coolidge Corner Theatre on Monday, August 20 at 6:00 pm. Tickets are available through Brookline Booksmith.

If you were hoping to see the godfather of cybereverything, William Gibson, read from his new book Spook Country in a few days, you better make sure you have tickets. Harvard Book Store announced that remaining tickets for his reading "number in the single digits."

Tickets for the Brookline Booksmith reading at Coolidge Corner number in the double digits - 30 as of last night. Obviously, Gibson's reputation is preceding him.

But Gibson has your back. If you can't get tickets to be there in person, you can watch the Spook Country reading he held in Second Life. A Gibson reading in Second Life seems more appropriate than one in person - it's like an inventor who has moved on to bigger and better things, but he returns once in a while to see what other people have done with his vision. Here is an excerpt: