He sees this internalized space emerge from trauma.” Alberto depicts the famous and dead, visible only in virtual reality: River Phoenix in front of the Viper Room, Helmut Newton in the driveway of the Chateau Marmont. She has been invited to write about virtual artwork for Node, a magazine that does not yet exist (and might not ever).Īlberto, the first artist she interviews, is “concerned with history as internalized space. Hollis Henry, a former rock star with the Curfew, is trying to make a living as a free-lance journalist. You have to pay attention when reading Gibson, and if you do, you will find Spook Country an up-to-the-second thriller that also encompasses a fine joke about our unrelenting fear of the rest of the world (when what we should most fear is ourselves). Spook Country, like Pattern Recognition in 2005, takes on our Sept. He sees into the future, and it looks somewhat like the present, except the technology and the paranoia are cranked up even higher. William Gibson inspects the present, and it is just as weird and wired as you suspect.
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