A review by megmcardle
Spook Country by William Gibson

5.0

William Gibson's previous book, Pattern Recognition, was an amazing book, bringing me completely into the Gibson fold, where I had always hovered around the edges before. His new book explores some fo the same landscape and themes. Where his books like the early SF masterpiece Neuromancer used to imagine where technology might take us, Gibson is more interested now in where we already are. He looks at our technology-saturated lives and weaves interesting stories full of paranoia and shadowy agents of change. Secretive billionaires, acrobatic Chinese-Cuban criminals, pill-popping Russian translators, and ex-lead singers from defunct 80's indie bands. What do all of these have in common? They are all vividly realized characters wandering the Gibson landscape, intersecting in a plot that starts out being about computer-generated locative art, and ends up involving a mysterious government plot. For those up for the ride, thsi was a really fun read.