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William gibson multilingual tito engages in sensitive information transfers from his singleroom apartment, while journalist hollis frets over her startup magazines censure of its own promotions, and prescription. Yet as a pageturner, gibson executes the book with panache. It was the usual incomprehensible and pretentious start to a william gibson novel. William gibson s first novel, neuromancer, won the hugo award, the nebula award, and the philip k. William ford gibson born march 17, 1948 is an americancanadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. I finished reading william gibsons newest novel, spook country, a few days ago and have been trying to figure out how i feel about it. Count zero and mona lisa overdrive completed his first trilogy. I would wander into a bookstore, and that hauntingly familiar nasal drawl would. Once you begin to read the book, it is extremely difficult to leave it before concluding.
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