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A review by pkadams
Spook Country by William Gibson
4.0
What makes William Gibson a favorite author is his ability to make you look at life with a different prism. Every time he does it, I realize I've been overlooking something or not thinking about it in the same way. His way is always more interesting and seems to see the present from a future perspective. What I find difficult though is getting into his books as you spend a good part of them disoriented and confused.
As with Pattern Recognition, William Gibson approaches the present like it is the future. As one reviewer said,
Now that the present has caught up with William Gibson's vision of the future....he has started writing about a time--our time--in which everyday life feels like science fiction."
His prism is the science fiction prism and gives you that future shock that you get when say you realize that you don't use index cards to take notes for papers any more you use zotero or other online note taking application, you have a personal trainer that is a computer program - WiiFit, or when you lose a computer file and you use Time Machine to retrieve it. Gibson is a genius at making you realize you are living in the future.
As with Pattern Recognition, William Gibson approaches the present like it is the future. As one reviewer said,
Now that the present has caught up with William Gibson's vision of the future....he has started writing about a time--our time--in which everyday life feels like science fiction."
His prism is the science fiction prism and gives you that future shock that you get when say you realize that you don't use index cards to take notes for papers any more you use zotero or other online note taking application, you have a personal trainer that is a computer program - WiiFit, or when you lose a computer file and you use Time Machine to retrieve it. Gibson is a genius at making you realize you are living in the future.