William Gibson- Zero History

 The new novel by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and many more, is scheduled to be released on September 7, 2010.  As a long time Gibson fan I am looking forward to getting my hands on this one.  According to the released description it features the return of Hubertus Bigend, global marketing fiend we first meet in 2003's Pattern Recognition (my favorite by him) and again in 2005's Spook Country.  Below is the book description taken from Amazon.com where it is available for preorder.  Whether it holds up to Gibson's usual standard of brilliance remains to be seen but Gibson being the visionary he is I think its a safe bet.  It appears after many novels exploring the future, Gibson has set his sights on exploring the now and using his significant talents to show us our world in a way both familiar and almost shockingly surreal. He has a great ability for capturing the fundemental feeling of disconnect that underlies our increasingly more technologically connected society. It will be interesting to see what Gibson shows us this time around.
Check back September 7th for my review of Zero History.



Product description from Amazon.com


Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she's broke, and Bigend never feels it's beneath him to use whatever power comes his way -- in this case, the power of money to bring Hollis onto his team again. Not that she knows what the "team" is up to, not at first.



Milgrim is even more thoroughly owned by Bigend. He's worth owning for his useful gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic - so much so that he spoke Russian with his therapist, in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of the addiction that would have killed him.



Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. Most recently he jumped off the highest building in the world, opening his chute at the last moment, and he has a new thighbone made of rattan baked into bone, entirely experimental, to show for it. Garreth isn't owned by Bigend at all. Garreth has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that a man like Bigend will find he needs, when things go unexpectedly sideways, in a world a man like Bigend is accustomed to controlling.



As when a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy that even Bigend, whose subtlety and power in the private sector would be hard to overstate, finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift in a seriously dangerous world.