Article: William Gibson's `Spook Country': Sure the book has characters, but ...

Byline: Chauncey Mabe

"Spook Country" by William Gibson; Penguin ($25.95)

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Novel Writing 101, surely, includes the injunction that if you have only one narrative voice, then you might consider steering away from multiple points of view.

William Gibson, possibly the most influential science-fiction writer of the past 30 years, seems to have missed class that day, if his ninth novel, "Spook Country," is any indication.

As the leading founder of "cyberpunk," the 1980s subgenre that was the first to imagine the enormous changes in human life soon to be wrought by the onrushing digital age, Gibson finds himself in the same fix ...

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