HarperCollins have

announced the next Neal Stephenson novel, REAMDE, a thriller about gold farming. I sat down with Neal last year when I was touring with my own gold farming book, For the Win, and we marvelled together at the awesome weirdness, fraud, adventure, heroism and venality of online worlds and the funny businesses that operating inside of them. REAMDE comes out in September, and I can't wait to read it — from Neal's description, it sounds like a hell of a book.

(Thanks, Mirza, via Submitterator!)