Fake William Gibson novels, tweeted

Australo-Prussian tugs in LEO scuttled to avoid capture by Hardee's exoatmospheric weapons & chicken division. Zürcher calfskin watchbands?
— Authentic Wm. Gibson (@AuthenticWmGibs) November 3, 2012

@AuthenticWmGibs is a funny fake William Gibson Twitter account, which tweets plausible-sounding precis of imaginary Gibson novels (or, as the Twitter bio has it, "Synopses for William Gibson novels that are definitely 100% real, but only in a timeline with greater authenticity than this one.")

Unknown weirdo creates pastiche of iconic SF author, constructing textual Cornell boxes, filled with snippets of cyberpunk microplots...
— Authentic Wm. Gibson (@AuthenticWmGibs) November 12, 2012

...internet dorks disappointed that it's not a whirring, molybdenum-cased Markov robot pecking the keys of a 1892 Blickensderfer typewriter.
— Authentic Wm. Gibson (@AuthenticWmGibs) November 12, 2012

@AuthenticWmGibs (via IO9)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Ryan_T_H

I would read any of these.
BillStewart2012

Future William Gibson novels are here, they’re just not evenly distributed.
Boundegar

These are procedurally generated, aren’t they?
http://profile.yahoo.com/P6TX6BOLPK4ZOEQITB3QPXQHGE John Kaune

apparently this uses the same algorithm that could generate Douglas Coupland novels… but come to think of it, Coupland is more accurately Gibson done by Wes Anderson.