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theal8r 's review for:
Zero History
by William Gibson
As always, I had to struggle to keep up with William Gibson. His novels are always like taking a ride on a roller coaster building itself just seconds before you arrive. You can't predict where it is going to go and, you suspect, if you looked behind it would have already erased and re-written itself.
It is part of a trilogy formed up by Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and this installment. However, it is the characters who intersect, not so much the plot. There is the overarching theme of secrets and finding out just who is it who holds the secrets you want. The notion that there is always someone who has that vital bit you need, something else going on in a spot you never thought to examine. And that spot is exactly where you are looking, and looking without seeing. Staring into the middle distance, never aware that you are walking into an abyss.
But of course, you never see all that until you try to look behind and the present place your attention is focused informs what you thought you understood (but really didn't quite get)...
Just read it.
It is part of a trilogy formed up by Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and this installment. However, it is the characters who intersect, not so much the plot. There is the overarching theme of secrets and finding out just who is it who holds the secrets you want. The notion that there is always someone who has that vital bit you need, something else going on in a spot you never thought to examine. And that spot is exactly where you are looking, and looking without seeing. Staring into the middle distance, never aware that you are walking into an abyss.
But of course, you never see all that until you try to look behind and the present place your attention is focused informs what you thought you understood (but really didn't quite get)...
Just read it.