Comments on: Spook Country by William Gibson http://bobsbooks.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/spook-country-by-william-gibson/ Collected Literary Musings Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: RFM http://bobsbooks.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/spook-country-by-william-gibson/#comment-5008 RFM Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:41:43 +0000 http://bobsbooks.wordpress.com/?p=173#comment-5008 Were you in Vancouver as you finished it? I like the idea of radioactive money, by the way. Were you in Vancouver as you finished it?

I like the idea of radioactive money, by the way.

]]> By: rashbre http://bobsbooks.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/spook-country-by-william-gibson/#comment-5007 rashbre Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:01:13 +0000 http://bobsbooks.wordpress.com/?p=173#comment-5007 This was my backpack book last Summer, whilst I travelled around Canada. I enjoy Gibson's writing style. There may be some rapidly aging technology references in his 'near now' genre books, but he writes more as a non-technologist referencing 'stuff that does things'. Its more apparent in some of the older books which take more of a time leap forward to points where the techno isn't yet realised. I find there can be whole sections of prose, about a scene, situation or concept, that stand well by themselves and still knit into the narrative of the story. It reminds me of a mirrored wall of squares, with some straight glass insets; on a travellator, you're not sure when you are seeing through and when its a reflection. I also find the lifestyle characterisations give Gibson plenty of scope to play around and that I'm sure some of the action writes itself based upon the logic and self-assured worldviews of the characters. This book also has folk escaped from Pattern Recognition included. I quite liked this. No big deal and no necessity to know the other storyline, but a little gesture towards some of his readers, perhaps. Book 2 of a near now series. I don't think it really mattered what was in the container, except as a way to have an ending. Perhaps there's an alternative where its empty? This was my backpack book last Summer, whilst I travelled around Canada. I enjoy Gibson’s writing style. There may be some rapidly aging technology references in his ‘near now’ genre books, but he writes more as a non-technologist referencing ’stuff that does things’. Its more apparent in some of the older books which take more of a time leap forward to points where the techno isn’t yet realised.

I find there can be whole sections of prose, about a scene, situation or concept, that stand well by themselves and still knit into the narrative of the story. It reminds me of a mirrored wall of squares, with some straight glass insets; on a travellator, you’re not sure when you are seeing through and when its a reflection.

I also find the lifestyle characterisations give Gibson plenty of scope to play around and that I’m sure some of the action writes itself based upon the logic and self-assured worldviews of the characters. This book also has folk escaped from Pattern Recognition included. I quite liked this. No big deal and no necessity to know the other storyline, but a little gesture towards some of his readers, perhaps. Book 2 of a near now series.

I don’t think it really mattered what was in the container, except as a way to have an ending. Perhaps there’s an alternative where its empty?

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