{"id":295,"date":"2007-08-18T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/william-gibson-spook-country\/"},"modified":"2014-11-09T01:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T06:08:43","slug":"william-gibson-spook-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/william-gibson-spook-country\/","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson: Spook Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I went to see William Gibson at Politics and Prose bookstore last night. As expected, the place was packed – but since I got there an hour ahead, I got a seat up front. He was giving a reading and signing of his new book, Spook Country<\/em><\/a>. I enjoyed both Pattern Recognition<\/em><\/a> (his previous book) and Spook Country – though neither are Science Fiction. Gibson read a chapter from Spook Country that was based in DC. He then answered audience questions and signed books. <\/p>\n

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In the past 2 weeks I have read Pattern Recognition as well as Spook Country back-to-back. Both books are mainstream novels and are both set in the present day; they have one character in common. However, Spook Country can be read without having read Pattern Recognition first. Basically Spook Country is a crime caper of sorts. The main character, Hollis Henry is a former rock musician turned journalist. She is working for a new magazine “Node”, and doing an article on a new art form, “locative art”. Locative art is basically using virtual reality tech to overlay scenes on real-life places. Hollis’ employer subsequently asks her to investigate something else. <\/p>\n

Another thread has a Cuban-Chinese mob family helping to get something smuggled into the country. A third thread has Mr. Brown (who may or may not be a govt. agent) following Tito (of the Cuban-Chinese family). Mr. Brown “employs” (ok, blackmails) a Russian speaking junkie to help him. All three threads come together eventually…<\/p>\n

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I went to see William Gibson at Politics and Prose bookstore last night. As expected, the place was packed – but since I got there an hour ahead, I got a seat up front. He was giving a reading and signing of his new book, Spook Country. I enjoyed both Pattern Recognition (his previous book) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}