But Idoru was only a large self-organising molecular computer, and her main task was to preserve the physical integrity of Mustang Sally, so she didn't necessarily see the significance of one piece of apparently pointless human activity over another. "Just keep an eye on him", they told Idoru. When they found out what Turner was up to, they didn't stop him right away. These were all the constraints I remember. The ship was to be a NavyĪs opposed to a civilian ship. Many of them bearing the names of Gibson's later characters. Mustang Sally was of large but unspecified size, carrying 30000 or so crew members, That the Mustang Sally would be a "generation" ship - a spaceship with its own self-sustainingĮnvironment, capable of crossing vast inter-stellar distances, taking centuries to get anywhere, Some of the WGB members, in speculating about the never-written novel, felt that there was scopeįor some invention here, and a number of short story threads were begun. In any case, per Swanwick's review, I opted to stick with affectless junkiesĪnd their dead but ceaselessly wisecracking sidekicks, and the rest, as they say, is history." Novel by Paul Scott, better known for THE RAJ QUARTET. Something of the tone of the thing from THE CHINESE LOVE PAVILLION, an excellent if minor What I recall most clearly, though, is that I was hoping to lift Though space of a dirtball postmodern Sol-centric sort, perhaps not unlike some of Sterling's It *really* was envisioned as a space opera of sorts, The very brief and sketchy outline for TLOTMS, as far as I know, resides today in some This may actually be how NEUROMANCER became, so to speak, a trilogy. Out of it after a disagreement over the dustjacket art for their hardcover of COUNT ZERO. I actually did have a contract for this title, with Arbor House, but shamelessly ducked Michael Swanwick's LOCUS review of my unwritten novel, THE LOG OF THE MUSTANG SALLY. "There's a thread in Random Thoughts about Shortly thereafter, Gibson himself wrote in his blog: S ome history on this piece: There was a topic on the William Gibsonĭiscussion board about a Michael Swanwick spoof review of William Gibson's The Log of the Mustang Sally.
It is decades before the ship will reach any habitable part of the galaxy, and something is loose on the ship. On the vast generation ship, Mustang Sally, an experiment goes wrong.
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