Zero History is a 400-page novel about has-been rock stars and pretentious advertising executives in search of a reclusive designer of ‘really cool’ jeans and jackets. It is mind-bogglingly shallow, pretentious and boring. Zero History is the third novel in William Gibson’s so-called ‘Blue Ant trilogy’, itself the third of Gibson’s three trilogies of novels. […]
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Zero History by William Gibson (2010)
Posted by Simon on April 23, 2021
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Spook Country by William Gibson (2007)
When she wrote about things, her sense of them changed, and with it, her sense of herself. (Spook Country page 174) The Sprawl trilogy Neuromancer (1984) Count Zero (1986) Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) Gibson’s first three novels made up the Sprawl trilogy (1984 to 1988), science fiction stories set 50 or so years in the […]
Posted by Simon on April 21, 2021
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All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson (1999)
Nothing dates quicker than the future. All Tomorrow’s Parties is the title of a song by the Velvet Underground recorded in 1967. The choice of a Velvet Underground track as the title of a novel supposedly set in a hi-tech future confirms the sense that Gibson, born in 1948, despite being credited with the invention […]
Posted by Simon on April 16, 2021
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Idoru by William Gibson (1996)
Arleigh’s van smelled of long-chain monomers and warm electronics. (Idoru page 201) Virtual Light, the first novel in William Gibson’s ‘Bridge trilogy’, made me fall out of love with Gibson. Once I’d realised the tough ex-cop hero of the book, Berry Rydell was, underneath all the sci-fi add-ons, basically an avatar of John McClane from […]
Posted by Simon on April 14, 2021
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Virtual Light by William Gibson (1993)
Yamazaki crossed to the smooth curve of cable that interrupted the room’s floor. Only an oval segment of it was visible, like some mathematical formula barely breaking a topological surface in a computer representation. He bent to touch it, the visible segment polished by other hands. Each of the thirty-seven cables, containing four hundred and […]
Posted by Simon on April 12, 2021
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Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
She hooked thumbs in the belthoops of her leather jeans and rocked backward on the lacquered heels of her cherry red cowboy boots. The narrow toes were sheathed in bright Mexican silver. The lenses were empty quicksilver, regarding him with an insect calm. ‘You’re street samurai,’ he said. ‘How long you work for him?’ ‘Couple […]
Posted by Simon on March 8, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/neuromancer-william-gibson/
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