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''Node Magazine'' is a literary project in the guise of a fictional magazine created to annotate the novel ''Spook Country'' by William Gibson. The project is essentially a hypertext version of the novel. It takes its name from ''Node'', a non-existent magazine in ''Spook Country'' owned by Hubertus Bigend, which employs the novel's protagonist to pursue the source of locative art.〔 〕 The project drew attention from the novelist, and has been featured in ''The Guardian'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Salon'', ''The Seattle Times'' and the ''Santa Cruz Sentinel''. The academic literary critic John Sutherland has claimed that the project threatened "to completely overhaul the way literary criticism is conducted". ==Origin== The project was initiated when the recipient of an advanced reading copy of the novel mobilised "an army of volunteers" to track the references and assemble the cloud of data surrounding the novel – every element of the work which is searchable on internet resources such as Google and Wikipedia.〔 The pseudonymous author, under the ''nom de plume'' patternBoy, conceived the Node project as "a multi-author blog of fictional news stories in the ''Spook Country'' universe", and did not anticipate that it would itself become the focus of media attention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=And Now, Towards Chapter 85... )〕 He declared the launch of the Node tumblog sister-site to ''Node Magazine'' on June 24, 2007, with the following announcement: The project has precedent in Joe Clark's (PR-Otaku ), an attempt at logging and annotating Gibson's preceding novel ''Pattern Recognition''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=No Offense Intended… ) 〕 Gibson has noted that while PR-Otaku "took a couple of years to come together", ''Node'' was complete before the novel was even published. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Node Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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