Yatterings

William Gibson’s next novel, Spook Country, is due in August and it sounds like an awesome one: set one year in the past. The College Crier has an interview which both Futurismic and BoingBoing are linking to here but it looks like the Slashdot/Digg effect has taken place so take care.

Gibson is one of those writers who delves into the really obvious architecture of the world and makes it obvious, makes you want to find ways of hacking it into something useful. I know his last novel, Pattern Recognition, was not as well recieved by some but I maintain that it is a great update on Neuromancer bringing the central characters and conceipts eerily up to date for the new century. Yet even in this, Gibson throws a curve ball because he admits the effects of the last century in its archaeology to enter the new.