![]() ![]() There’s a sense of density built up in layers, but packaged inside a bland and featureless box this writing is like a nondescript cargo container (one of the book’s main images) filled with everything from expensive brand names, hi-tech geekery, and the detritus of popular culture to micro-perceptions of psychological shifts that take place just beneath the threshold of conscious attention.Īt times, the effect of this prose is one of deadpan absurdity, as when townhouses in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It’s overwrought, filled to bursting with similes and allusions yet somehow it still manages to feel as if it had been executed skeletally, entirely without flourishes. ![]() “The door opened like some disturbing hybrid of bank vault and Armani evening purse, perfectly balanced bombproof solidity meeting sheer cosmetic slickness.” William Gibson’s prose is cool and precise: minimal, low-affect, attuned to surfaces rather than depths. ![]() ![]() Some notes on William Gibson’s new novel, Spook Country: ![]()
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