Spook Country (Hardcover) by William Gibson

from danconsiglio

I do love a book with multiple story lines that seem totally unconnected until the last two or so chapters. I love books like that a lot. Gibson pulls his complicated plot off well. I'm not convinced that future generations will connect as strongly to the explicitly 'oughties' technology referenc...

from port22

The minimalist style and understated wit of the writing is what pulls you in. The book is not science fiction but part of the plot revolves around an interesting form of art based on spacial technology -- locative art. It is viewed via location-aware helmets that obtain coordinates from GPS. The ...

from rivkat

A former rock star turned journalist is researching a story on locative art-GPS-enabled overlays that can change the way a place looks for those with the right equipment-and finds that she might just be doing more than that, somehow intervening in a secret world of spycraft and subterfuge. There'...

from RobertDay

William Gibson has stopped writing science fiction. That's not to say that his style or content has changed. Rather, it shows that our world has now caught up to his vision. I thought that when I read his previous book. 'Pattern recognition'; now, with 'Spook country', it becomes all the plainer....

from kalyka

Spooks. They're defined as spies, but also as ghosts, specters of the past. And they seem to be ever-present in this post 9-11 America. Open to the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles. Hollis Henry, former singer of The Curfew (perhaps a play on the Cure?), now turned journalist, receives a 3am phone c...