Spook Country
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (504 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143142208 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 514 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
William Gibson's first new book in four years-like the bestselling Pattern Recognition, a contemporary novel with international implications.
: So do you think that's your own career path, that you're less interested in imagining a future, or do you think that the world is changing? Gibson: I think it's actually both. Is that the way you felt when you came to write that book, that the real world had caught up with your ideas? Gibson: Well, I thought that writing about the world today as I perceive it would probably be more challenging, in the real sense of science fiction, than continuing just to make things up. Here are a few excerpts from the interview: : Could
"Rock solid centre of the Blue Ant series" according to Fossil. I can return to Spook Country again and again, and I have, though this is my first time reading on Kindle. In this second book of the "Blue Ant" trilogy, we're introduced to Milgrim and Hollis Henry. Milgrim is probably one of my all time favourite fictional characters, though he, and Hollis, continue to develop through the next book "Zero History".Gibson re-invented his style for the Blue Ant books, and while richly visual it is less intrusive, smoother and more. I didn't just read this book, I experienced it. Wow! Once in a great while a book comes along that transcends the events written about and explains something of deep and cosmic importance. I was stunned by the real story, uncoiling like an invisible serpent of stars, behind the "on the page" story of a woman hired to possibly write for a new magazine, and a parallel story of intrigue amongst a motley collection of spies. These stories coil around each other like a DNA helix to create a new being, a glimpse into a f. Relevant re read Tristan Narbrough It was a pleasure to read this novel again after a number of years. The musician references and fictional goth band were fun to meet again. I intended to read the third in the trilogy, but read the second again instead as I could recall so little detail. The geolocation virtual art is no doubt in beta stage too with the imminent arrival of Oculus Rift and rivals. The cryptography topic has become more relevant in the wake of the Snowden revelations. The contempor