William Gibson: Spook Country
Tuesday, September 25
Festival Room, SCH
7:00 PM

Author William Gibson speaks on his new novel, Spook Country. Book signing to follow. This is a free event, everyone is welcome.

In Spook Country, William Gibson, author of eight critically acclaimed previous novels, picks up the thread that began in his most recent bestseller Pattern Recognition, continuing to probe cultural changes in the U.S. since 9/11 and the space where politics and paranoia intersect. Like Pattern Recognition, this latest Gibson novel takes place in a contemporary setting and carries into our new century his perceptions of technology, globalization, and terrorism.

Of course, relaying this news on my blog has a potential backfiring effect of having more people show up causing an even larger queue, but whatever. I enjoyed Neuromancer and Count Zero even if I can’t really remember what happened in either of those two books. I do have Pattern Recognition although I don’t think I’m even thirty pages in on that book.

Anyway, I’m likely going to go to this and am going to try and find out how many books he’s going to be signing. If someone wants me to pick up a copy of Spook Country for him and also get it signed (since I’ll be in the queue), I can do that (assuming he’s going to sign more than one copy per person), just let me know. I’m probably going to contact Mr. Bittle and see if he wants in on this.

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