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1. To warm up, what is the name of the tragicomical 'country music' blonde in 'Idoru' and 'All Tomorrow’s Parties'? Mary-Lou Maryalice Mary-Jo Maryelise

2. What is the colour of the cough medicine Colin Laney develops an addiction to in 'All Tomorrow's Parties'? red it's clear green blue

3. Who is the loa of roads? Houngan Baron Samedi Papa Ougou Legba

4. What caused the splitting of self-aware Cyberspace into multiple personae? (Tip: It’s mentioned at the end of 'Neuromancer' and again at the end of 'Mona Lisa Overdrive'.) contact with another huge self-concious AI from Alpha Centauri a malevolent virus uploaded to Cyberspace by the Yakuza a world-wide powersurge that made all computers on the planet act crazy Case’s successful Cyberspace run on the core of Tessier-Ashpool’s computer

5. What is the name of the young boy that guards Chevette's and Tessa's van at the Bay Bridge for a little 'shit money'? Henry King Khan Boomzilla Miguel

6. What do three eggs cost on the Bridge? a quarter $2 75 cents $5

7. In 'Count Zero', mercenary Turner has a brief affair with his brother's girlfriend. True or false? True False

8. In her flight from Swain's estate through winter London, Kumiko briefly warms up in a noodle seller's stall. The noodle seller is kind to her, and probably he is also an agent of her father's, placed there to protect her. What is his nationality? Chinese Korean Japanese Vietnamese

9. When recovering from the attack on his life in Delhi, Turner's mind lives in a 'simstim' simulation of a New England boyhood from the previous century for three months while his body heals. Which author does this 'boy simulation' like to read? Edgar Rice Burroughs Henry Rider Haggard Robert Stevenson Arthur Conan Doyle

10. In an article for the magazine 'Wired', Gibson describes a journey to Singapore. What does he find to be exceedingly rare there? American nationals polite taxi drivers dissidents good food

11. William Gibson's personal one-time hobby was to collect what? the complete issues of 'Superman' from the very start mechanical watches computer mice a e-mail address with every freemailer on the planet

12. What was Blackwell's 'profession' before he became Rez's bodyguard? kidnapping big company executives for ransom extorting information and money from other criminals hitman for an Australian intelligence agency local Yakuza representative

13. In which organisation/company did Colin Laney undergo testing of his phenomenal ability to search Cyberspace instinctively for complex information? DatAmerica Cyberdyne, Inc. Microsoft National Security Agency

14. Which future European country does Maria Paz, ex-girlfriend of notorious Public Relations specialist Cody Harwood of Harwood/Levine, come from? Danubia Andalusia Castilia Padania

15. And finally, my favourite quote from all of Gibson, with the crucial word left out: 'And for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely...' Answer: (starts with h)