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William Gibson-Spook Country (Book Related)

DJ_ZestDJ_Zest 252 Posts
edited August 2007 in Strut Central
Anyone else looking forward to copping this? Gibson is one of my fav authors for sure... This looks pretty good, I thought Pattern Recognition was good too... Seems like he is more reality based these days, but still on some William Gibson Books.comFor any one not familar w/ Gibson he is best known for his first major novel "Nueromancer", which was way ahead of its time, there was a movie based on his short story called Johnny Mnemonic that came out in 95" with Keanu & Ice-T

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  • vajdaijvajdaij 447 Posts
    Gibson has a new one out? I will definitely cop that, he's one of my favorite authors. Even if he doesn't really write 'science fiction' anymore.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Is he really still good? I read the first trilogy, and was pretty into it,
    and "Burning Chrome" and "The Difference Engine" were excellent as well ...
    but by the time I finished the one about the bike messenger chick living on the
    golden gate bridge, I was burned out on his style, and it seemed to have lost
    alot of the freshness and inventiveness of the first books.
  • residentgiantresidentgiant 619 Posts
    I'm psyched for this.

    I find it interesting that each of his trilogies has been set closer to the present day. Maybe it's that the world's catching up with his ideas, and his own "pattern recognition" has been honed to the point that he's able to see some sort of weird roadmap in the virtual mess of the 21st century...

    Supposedly he dreamt up "cyberspace" just from watching kids play arcade games and realizing their desire to actually exist within that virtual space... in the early 80's, while writing Burning Chrome on a typewriter.

    Or maybe he's simply unable to write about a convincing future anymore given the insane pace that everything's moving at. Did you see that thing on his blog about the Adidas GSG9 tactical combat boot, made specially for Germany's special forces group? The interviewer (Warren Ellis, no less!) thought for sure he made that up for the book, but it's real.

    I have a vivid memory as a teenager, having recently read Neuromancer again for the Nth time, of walking down a street in NYC and seeing, for the very first time, a guy with a table set up on the sidewalk selling "used" cell phones. It struck me as being something right out of one of his books.

    I highly recommend watching "No Maps For These Territories," if you can track down a copy. It's basically a long interview with him sitting in the back of a car talking about everything from the "prosthetic nervous system" we humans have been developing for years yet seem almost oblivious to, to vintage pornography. He's a fascinating dude for sure.
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