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Zero History
Copyright 2010 by
William Gibson
I first read this on the 25th September 2011 and most recently on the 17th June 2012
{?twitch?}
Hollis Henry, ex band member of The Curfew, is once again working for
Hubertus Bigend. She in association with Milgrim, now in recovery, is on the search for denim, a particular, very specific design of denim clothesware.
As the back cover says this is a brilliant thriller about the hidden webs and patterns that underlie the new now. Notice it doesn't say it's a brilliant science fiction thriller. It's so well written and with lovely precision of observation, emotion and language but it's not Science Fiction. It leads to a carefully engineered and quite entertaining denouement including a well-planned caper and there's potential for some serious fighting with some cool weaponry but, no, it's not science fiction.
I suppose I could have predicted that since "Pattern Recognition" was similarly not of my favoured genre. Indeed it does follows on from "Pattern Recognition". Hold on a minute. Well, yes, it does follow on from "Pattern Recognition" but it follows on rather more directly from "Spook Country" about which I had completely forgotten. Indeed it features many of the same characters (and if I'd remembered "Spook Country" at all I'd have spotted that when I started reading the novel, rather as I was finishing).
All my minor carping aside, it is an absolutely lovely book. What an astoundingly skilful writer Mr Gibson has become!
Loaded on the 26th August 2012.
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