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| Original Title: | Spook Country |
| ISBN: | 0399154302 (ISBN13: 9780399154300) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Blue Ant #2 |
| Characters: | Hubertus Bigend, Hollis Henry |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) Vancouver, British Columbia(Canada) New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2008) |
William Gibson
Hardcover | Pages: 371 pages Rating: 3.69 | 18417 Users | 1432 Reviews
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| Title | : | Spook Country (Blue Ant #2) |
| Author | : | William Gibson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 371 pages |
| Published | : | August 7th 2007 by Putnam Adult (first published August 2nd 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Cyberpunk. Thriller |
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Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to.
Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms.
Bobby Chombo is a "producer", and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.
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After the spectacular Pattern Recognition, Gibson returns to his normal fuzzy ways and once again seems to write the same book he'd already written a half-dozen times prior to this. Three narratives once again unspool alongside each other until they converge in the end, where they finally arrive at a McGuffin (this time, a mysterious shipping crate). The purpose of the McGuffin is vague, of course, although it did seem a little more relevant to the themes of the book than the glasses in VirtualGibson weaves another dark mystery from the narrow viewpoints of exotic, solitary characters, as they move through a complex "day after tomorrow" alternate present. We follow an ex-Cuban "spy family", shuttling secrets from buyer to seller on iPods, and an ex-rocker now journalist covering a software engineer working with "locative artists". These artists build 3D visual simulations that appear overlaid in a particular place when viewed through Gibson's beloved VR helmet. All of this leads to a
I've been reading William Gibson for a few years now, well after "The Movement" came and went and the world adopted and forgot the term "cyberspace." I wish I had been around to feel the freshness of that way of visualizing data, but it's a sad fact that I'm young enough to simply take that for granted. Possibly, kids who grew up around Cape Canaveral have the same take on Heinlein.At any rate, "Spook Country" isn't a novel of the near-future, but the here-and-now, and, honestly, it's everything
Although this was generally an interesting read, for me it had some fundamental problems. 1) For the first 50 pages I found myself daydreaming and constantly having to reread bits 2) The contemporary technology in this book is going to soon date itself. I don't know if Gibson considers this scifi, but the issues at hand (and the technology) already feel a little dated. Though as a result, I suppose it may appeal to a wider audience than other scifi or technical mysteries. 3) It was truly
Every time I go back to L.A. to visit my parents I gorge myself on SF novels, which my mother buys in abundance. I was excited to see the new William Gibson waiting for me in my old room. As usual with Mr. Gibson, the writing is clean and crisp, the prognosticating eerie, and the plotting complex. However, this book is BORING. And that's that.
Can a thriller also anaesthetize? Spook Country tries to find out. It has all the trappings of a modern espionage story, with quasigovernment agents and a mysterious shipping container being tracked by a paranoid GPS geohacker. Yet William Gibson seems strangely reticent to let the story or the characters off their leash and venture boundlessly into this world. Instead, he escorts the reader on a meandering tour of a possible present (or near-future) which ponders how recent technological
Well, I finished it. It was good, but overall I have to say that Mr. Gibson has fallen into a rut. I have but one suggestion for him: go out on a limb. Try going forward again. Take all your strengths and apply it to something a little more bold, perhaps attempt to truly look forward 20 to 50 years, or go way out and write a good space opera.But enough with the John Grisham. Please.* * *Still in progress. William Gibson is my Rowling. I will drop whatever I am doing to read a new book by him.
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