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Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life

Taking Twitter mash-ups and William Gibson along for the ride

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By Steve Ranger

Published: 20 July 2007 12:53 BST


Penguin has made forays into Second Life before, such as placing in-world samplers of Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, which features a 'Metaverse' somewhat reminiscent of Second Life (see above).

Photo credit: Second Life/Linden Lab


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