Max Barry’s Novel’s Plot Uncannily Resembles PS3 Crime Spree
November 23rd, 2006
Filed under: Electronic Entertainment, Folly, Weird Shit
Max Barry’s book, Jennifer Government, is where you find Nike scheming to shoot the first ten buyers of a new shoe to hype up its launch.
In the real, non-Max Barry world, you find people shooting other people at Sony PS3’s launch, and others stealing them.
Even Barry is wondering why (okay, perhaps not without a glimmer of self-interest to boost up the sales of his own book). But at the end of the day, all else is shit.
via JOYSTIQ
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