Spook Country, by William Gibson
Sep. 18th, 2007 06:49 pmVery good. Not as good as Pattern Recognition, but that one was a damn hard act to follow. Clearly act II in one of Gibson's three book not trilogies, it's SF where the SF premise is watching how the world would change if we had a massive decentralized communications network, small portable telephones and if terrorists had destroyed a major New York landmark at the turn of the century. Which makes it contemporary fiction. Sort of. And Gibson's prose is at the top of his game.
For example, one of our viewpoint characters is being ushered into the flat her rich, mysterious employer maintains in Vancouver on the chance that someone might need to stay there:
"He opened the large ebony door, which she saw was a good four inches thick, and they stepped into a space that might have been the central concourse in the national airport of some tiny, hyperwealthy European nation, a pocket Liechtenstein founded on the manufacture of the most expensive minimalist light fixtures ever made."
For example, one of our viewpoint characters is being ushered into the flat her rich, mysterious employer maintains in Vancouver on the chance that someone might need to stay there:
"He opened the large ebony door, which she saw was a good four inches thick, and they stepped into a space that might have been the central concourse in the national airport of some tiny, hyperwealthy European nation, a pocket Liechtenstein founded on the manufacture of the most expensive minimalist light fixtures ever made."