NP: Great Dismal is William Gibson

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Wed May 27 03:48:53 CDT 2009



Thanks!

Do you know if PR criticism contains comparisons of Cayce Pollard and Oedipa Maas?

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
> Heikki
> > Was Spooky Country any good?
>
> Certainly not as good as Pattern Recognition, but decent enough, I guess. I think
> Pattern Recognition was Gibson's best novel since the Sprawl Trilogy, whereas Spook
> Country was more standard fare. One of the great things about Pattern Recognition
> was that Gibson limited himself to a single protagonist/p.o.v. In Spook Country
> he returned to his old technique of cross-cutting between several characters.
>
> Pattern Recognition, btw, has attracted quite a bit of critical attention since its
> publication - fully deserved, IMO.
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