by William Gibson · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141016719
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In 'Spook Country', William Gibson immerses us in a technological thriller where spies, journalists, and military systems experts intertwine. The plot follows Hollis Henry, a journalist investigating the disappearance of Bobby Chombo, a man with disturbing knowledge of military technology. As Hollis delves deeper, she becomes embroiled in a dangerous game between old spies with scores to settle. Set in a world where information is a weapon and reality blurs, this novel explores the limits of perception and power in the digital age.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
