New William Gibson Novel

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Is anyone as psyched as me for the release of Zero History on Septmeber 7? To prepare for it, I've immersed myself in Gibson-land, blowing through Pattern Recognition (again) and now working on Spook Country (again) trying to finish before the release...and getting more paranoid by the second.
 
Yup, I'll be picking it up as soon as it comes out. Maybe I should re-read those as well.
 
Looking forward to it; I recently re-read Pattern Recognition and Spook Country, as well.
 
Always glad to see new stuff from Gibson. I don't know how many times I've read the "sprawl" trilogy.
 
I don't know if any of you guys have started in on this yet. I'm about halfway through right now. Good book. He actually talks about 'mall ninjas' :)
 
I'm about 50 pages in - had to re-finish Spook Country first. This one seems a little harder to get into than the rest.
 
He really nails the Mall Ninja Zeitgeist, and all those that identify dressing in Royal Robbins as being an "operator". These forums are ripe with "Foleys".
 
I love his books. Totally Ghost In The Shell.
 
Charlie Mike said:
I love his books. Totally Ghost In The Shell.
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Ahhhhhhh. Ghost in the Shell is totally Gibson, well old Gibson. He helped invent the Cyberpunk Genre. He'd been writing stories for a while, but Neuromancer came out in 1984. I like to think of Ghost in the Shell (the movie, haven't watched any of the rest of it) as an unauthorized continuation of the Neuromancer trilogy. He's the originator of terms like "cyberspace".

CM, you might REALLY enjoy his new stuff: Pattern Recognition/Spook Country/Zero History. They take place in the present they were written in (2003/2006/2009) and they're downright creepy - real semi-Big Brother type stuff going on.
 
I'm a hundred or so pages in, reading this as an e-book on my iPod. (which makes a pretty good e-book reader, BTW)
This is a sequel to Pattern Recognition; same characters for the most part.
I must say that though I love Gibson that was not one of my favorites of his. I felt he borrowed plot elements from earlier "Sprawl" novels.
Still, this one seems to be going well....
 
mwerner said:
I felt he borrowed plot elements from earlier "Sprawl" novels.
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Really? How so? Bigend as Armitage? Milgrim or Hollis as Case? Did you read Spook Country? I can understand comparing that with some of the Sprawl stuff because Santeria.

It did take me a while to get into this one. It didn't feel like a Gibson novel until about page 100, drinking game amounts of the word "semiotics" aside.
 
Pretty much as you say.... A young woman, uniquely talented, is hired by a vastly wealthy individual to find the source of some mysterious art objects....
Pretty much the same as what happened in Pattern recognition, though the outcome was of course much different.
I liked Spook Country a lot... Nice twist to where I thought the plot was going.
 
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