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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Putnam Adult
Price: $25.95
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WILLIAM GIBSON reads from and discusses Spook Country THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
Harvard Book Store is excited to host William Gibson for a special August event at the Brattle Theatre. Mr. Gibson will discuss his latest book, Spook Country, an unsettling and fast-paced exploration of technology, media, espionage, and addiction Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson's fine ninth 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. An operative named Brown, who may or may not work for the U.S. government, is tracking a young, Russian-speaking Cuban-Chinese criminal named Tito. Brown's goal is to follow Tito to yet another operative known only as the old man. Meanwhile, a mysterious cargo container with CIA connections repeatedly appears and disappears on the worldwide Global Positioning network, never quite coming to port. At the heart of the dark goings-on is Bobby Chombo, a talented but unbalanced specialist in Global Positioning software who refuses to sleep in the same spot two nights running. Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author's trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson's best. Click here to watch an interview with William Gibson.
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Sunday, August 19th |
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6:00 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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Please note that your $5 ticket may be redeemed for $5 off a single item at the event or at Harvard Book Store. THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. |
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William Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, the only son of a civilian contractor who worked at the Oak Ridge facility, where the first atomic bomb was made. (“Paranoiac legends of ‘security’ at Oak Ridge were part of our family culture,” says Gibson.) After a childhood spent in the mountains of Virginia, and a stint at boarding school in Arizona, he moved to Canada at age 19. He wrote his first fiction while attending the University of British Columbia, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. Since 1972, he has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is married and has two children.
In 1984, Gibson became the first author to win the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award in a single year for his debut novel Neuromancer. He is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace,” and for having envisioned both the Internet (complete with viruses and hackers) and virtual reality before either existed. In subsequent novels – Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru and the best-sellers Virtual Light and Pattern Recognition – he foresaw ongoing advances in nanotechnology, information control, identity theft, and the culture of on-line chat rooms.
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