It's as though there is a sort of invisible hyperlink theoretical text that extends out of the narrative of my novel in every direction. Gibson: The thing that has affected me most directly during Pattern Recognition, and subsequently, is the really strange new sense I have of the Google-ability of the text. I suppose one of the things it's trying to do is take some measure of how much the world has changed since Pattern Recognition. It's set in the same world as Pattern Recognition and involves some of the same characters but they're a few years down the road and the world has changed a bit.

I haven't been interviewed sufficiently to be able to tell you. Gibson: In the process of doing the tour I will be informed by interviewers of what the broad themes are. What would you say are the big themes of Spook Country? That wasn't true to the same extent even a decade ago. In corporate futurism they are really winging it-it must be increasingly difficult to come in and tell the board what you think is going to happen in 10 years because you've got to be bulls****ing if you claim to know. 8-city author tour.You can see it in corporate futurism as easily as you can see it in science fiction. Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author's trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson's best. At the heart of the dark goings-on is Bobby Chombo, a talented but unbalanced specialist in Global Positioning software who refuses to sleep in the same spot two nights running. Meanwhile, a mysterious cargo container with CIA connections repeatedly appears and disappears on the worldwide Global Positioning network, never quite coming to port. Brown's goal is to follow Tito to yet another operative known only as the old man. government, is tracking a young, Russian-speaking Cuban-Chinese criminal named Tito. An operative named Brown, who may or may not work for the U.S.

When a mysterious, not yet actual magazine, Node, hires former indie rocker turned journalist Hollis Henry to do a story on a new art form that exists only in virtual reality, Hollis finds herself investigating something considerably more dangerous.

Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson's fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented, postmodern world.

Spook country by william gibson