I havn’t kept up with William Gibson’s blog for a while, but today a Boing Boing post by Cory Doctorow let me know that Gibson has posted a few snippets of fiction to his blog the last couple of weeks. Vague – but very enticing – glimpses into something that hints to a very intriguing bigger picture.

Milgrim doubted that Brown was comforted by Gray’s Papaya, but he could become relatively talkative there. He’d have the non-alcoholic piña colada with his franks and lay out the origins of cultural Marxism in America. Cultural Marxism was what other people called political correctness, according to Brown, but it was really cultural Marxism, and had come to the United States from Germany, after World War II, in the cunning skulls of a clutch of youngish professors from Frankfurt. The Frankfurt School, as they’d called themselves, had wasted no time in plunging their intellectual ovipositors repeatedly into the unsuspecting body of old school American academia. Brown always enjoyed this part; it had an appealing vintage sci-fi creepiness to it, staccato and exciting, with grainy monochrome Euro-commie star-spawn in tweed jackets and knit ties, breeding like Starbucks.

When I browsed through the archives I found a few more excerpts posted between January and March that seem to be related. Whatever it is about, Gibson’s next novel is at the top of my “anticipated literature” list.