Spook Country by William Gibson
Nov. 12th, 2007 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyI finished this book over the weekend. Spook Country is more like Pattern Recognition than it is like Gibson's earlier works - speculative fiction, rather than science fiction, with a little bit of, hmm, eerieness thrown in. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
7j said that she read an interview with Gibson where he said, "The technology has just about caught up to what I used to enjoy predicting, so now I can just write regular fiction about the things that interest me." I think that's neat. I found a pretty comprehensive interview with Gibson, although it doesn't address that particular point, on Powells.com.
I liked Spook Country very much. I'm usually not terribly into multiple-viewpoint fiction, except in certain specific situations (like seeing into the mind of each of the parts of a couple, or a hero and villain, or between members of a group that all know each other). This situation is the kind that I usually don't like - three seemingly unrelated people who don't all meet each other at any point in the book - but I liked how it was done in this case. The three viewpoint characters are Tito, who has been bred and raised as a freelance intelligence agent, Hollis, a current journalist and former member of a cult band, and Milgrim, a guy hooked on anti-anxiety medication. They all have such different perspectives on the situation that is unfolding that it makes it very interesting. Some of the things in the book do not exist, but it's not really futuristic. Three and a half stars.
The holiday is such that my sweeties both have to work, but the library and post office are closed and I can't run errands. Meh.
7j said that she read an interview with Gibson where he said, "The technology has just about caught up to what I used to enjoy predicting, so now I can just write regular fiction about the things that interest me." I think that's neat. I found a pretty comprehensive interview with Gibson, although it doesn't address that particular point, on Powells.com.I liked Spook Country very much. I'm usually not terribly into multiple-viewpoint fiction, except in certain specific situations (like seeing into the mind of each of the parts of a couple, or a hero and villain, or between members of a group that all know each other). This situation is the kind that I usually don't like - three seemingly unrelated people who don't all meet each other at any point in the book - but I liked how it was done in this case. The three viewpoint characters are Tito, who has been bred and raised as a freelance intelligence agent, Hollis, a current journalist and former member of a cult band, and Milgrim, a guy hooked on anti-anxiety medication. They all have such different perspectives on the situation that is unfolding that it makes it very interesting. Some of the things in the book do not exist, but it's not really futuristic. Three and a half stars.
The holiday is such that my sweeties both have to work, but the library and post office are closed and I can't run errands. Meh.