In next week's issue, an excerpt from the
** starred ** review:

Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson's fine... novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented, postmodern world. When a mysterious, not yet actual magazine, Node, hires former indie rocker–turned–journalist Hollis Henry to do a story on a new art form that exists only in virtual reality, Hollis finds herself investigating something considerably more dangerous...

Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author's trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson's best. 8-city author tour. (Aug.)

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That description gives way too much away, I think.

OK... should I delete a sentence or two, Archie?

Totally your call. I'm assuming you just copied what Publisher's Weekly wrote, correct?

OK, I pulled a couple sentences that touched on plot points. Don't want to be a spoiler.

poy-fect

My personal preference would be to open the spoiler threads the 1st of August. But I also enjoy seeing the ARCers fighting temptation.

Where can I get an advance copy to review for Noisecontrol Publishing?! Sounds like an awesome book!

-Chris Bradley

eBay, unless you're one of the anointed.

So who'll be the first ARC'er to open the firing lines? I merely mentionned reading the ARC and got flamed... surely I'm not the only one..

what's to gain by discussing the book before it's released? wouldn't the conversation be much richer when everyone can participate?

Diplomacy with aplomb! Classy, Archie!

Sure, but there are subject specific threads, no? People would have the choice whether they want to participate or not.

Pretty hard to participate if you haven't read the book.

I'm with Archie!

Agreed. So does that mean a thread shouldn't be created?

I would vote that a Spook Country discussion thread should not be created yet.

Who's this William Gibson character everyone keeps talking about?

I believe you want this thread. Should answer your questions.

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Classy, Archie!

My middle name is classy.

Surely we can have a discussion about a book that no one's read about an art form that doesn't exist on a website that isn't actual. Seems all kinda congruent to me.

Reminds me of physicist Freeman Dyson, who started his career as a mathematician by saying "I am working on a class of problems that are not just insoluble, but cannot even be stated."