'Spook Country' Tracks Multiple Plots in a Gps Society
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › June 09, 2008
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William Gibson is celebrated for prescience, starting with his 1984 debut novel, "Neuromancer," where he imagined a virtual world that is strikingly similar to the Internet-centric one we inhabit today. In his latest novel, "Spook Country" (Berkley, 374 pp., $15), Gibson is also provocative.
The novel opens with a former rock star-turned-journalist, writing an article on an emerging form of street art that incorporates GPS to create installations that can be viewed only with a special helmet. A second story line follows a Cuban-Chinese criminal making deliveries for someone called only "the old man." A third plot involves a junkie being held hostage by someone who might be a government agent.See the full content of this document
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'Spook Country' Tracks Multiple Plots in a Gps Society
These split narratives converge only in the book's final chapters, trying a reader's patience.
Throughout "Spook Country," GPS units are ever...See the full content of this document
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