June 23, 2007 by patternboy.

Things are starting to heat up in Spook Country!

William Gibson has a book tour schedule and has started publicing the new work including a short movie and this interview for PC Magazine.

Wikipedia now has a Spook Country page and the William Gibson Aleph site (always an excellent resource for all things Gibson) has a new page prepared for the upcoming new release.

If you are looking for more definitive guides to the Spook Country landscape, look no further than the otaku-worthy immersion that is SpookCountry.co.uk or the occasionally self-referential NodeMagazine.

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June 23, 2007 by patternboy.

Thomas Wagner posted an early review of William Gibson’s Spook Country (due in August). Here’s a taste:

Some of his players have backgrounds in intelligence and counter-intelligence, and are motivated by powerful moral imperatives. Others are complete dilletantes. (As one puts it almost flippantly, “Secrets are cool.”) One character is the story’s requisite thug, but you get the impression he’s a complete poser. But — and this is key — no one is operating in any kind of official capacity, either in law enforcement or on behalf of any government or military body (with one possible exception, and we never learn who he’s working for at all). Everyone’s in it either for personal reasons, or because they’ve been forced into it. It’s perhaps the most colorful rogue’s gallery Gibson’s imagined since the heady days of the Sprawl.

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