Zero history blue ant trilogy, book 3 blue ant trilogy by william gibson. Zero history by william gibson the third book in william gibsons hightech trilogy is satsifying but the present he imagines needs sharper invention james purdon. This particular book is a collaboration focused on sprawl trilogy. If you read pattern recognition and spook country and if you have not you should, im betting that zero history is already on your reading device. Gibsons third trilogy, the blue ant trilogy, consisting of pattern recognition, spook country 2007, and zero history 2010, traces the logic of the globalized, branded, digital world in which we live, deploying some of the trademark strategies of cyberpunk to examine the present. However gibsons weak points as a writer were exposed and it was all too familiar ending it felt like mona lisa. Gibsons novels pattern recognition 2003, spook country 2007 and zero history 2010 are set in the same contemporary universe more or less the same one we live in now and put gibsons work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. Sprawl trilogy including download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Count zero like nueromancer carries multiple story lines and william gibson strings everything together in the end in the most spectacular way which only a genius like him can accomplish. But in another sense, gibson has spent much of his life sporadically writing an autobiography that dribbles out in bits and pieces within articles.
He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the. The sprawl trilogy also known as the neuromancer, cyberspace, or matrix trilogy is william gibsons first set of novels, composed of. Zero history, the 3rd book in gibsons bigend trilogy, is about fashion or antifashion, military contracting, inflatable spy drones, and much else. We talked about his fascination with fashion, the military, and stories about the present. In zero history, the third novel of gibsons bigend trilogy, a few years have passed since hollis henry last worked for the belgian marketing mastermind hubertus bigend, a relationship she is eager to avoid reestablishing. History forms a trilogy with pattern recognition and spook, so its no. The others are pattern recognition and spook country. The third in his blue ant series, published in 2010, william gibsons zero history is not really a part of a trilogy, the three books all being only loosely connected. Yesterday i sat down with william gibson to talk about his new novel, zero history.
The best way to view a william gibson novel isnt as a fulllength. William gibsons zero history is a pocket opera the national. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading count zero sprawl trilogy book 2. His first novel neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide, and count zero and mona. Count zero is the sequel to the confusing and stunning nueromancer. Zero history bigendblue ant trilogy, book 3 gibson, william isbn 0399156828 1 copy separate blue ant iii. Zero history concludes an exhaustively ofthemoment branding trilogy.
With an overdrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for ataglance information about availability. Zero history is the third novel in william gibsons sequence involving the octopus like blue ant pr agency, and its vaguely sinister owner, hubertus bigend. William gibson american literature oxford bibliographies. Signed first editions of gibsons sprawl trilogy, including neuromancer, mona lisa overdrive, and count zero his eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an otherworldly sheen. William gibson brings everything fullcircle and puts a bow on top to boot. It neatly tied off the story of key players of the first books, including a sympathetic conclusion for cayce pollard. Zero history is the third in gibsons socalled bigend series. Spook country is the second novel in the blue ant trilogy read pattern recognition and zero history for more. Burning chrome 1986 the ten stories collected here, written between 1977 and 1985, are some of. But as happens with most who find themselves subject to the gravity of bigend s attention, henry is quickly pulled back in as she searches for the reclusive maker of gabriel hounds, an antibrand of denim apparel. The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Zero history is the final novel in the blue ant trilogy read pattern recognition and spook country for more. Gibson has most recently been praised for pattern recognition 2003, his first novel set in the present and the first in the blue ant trilogy which.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. William gibson reveals a secret experiment in his bridge. Beyond that, his books have been renowned for capturing the zeitgeist of our times, an age characterized by revolutions in information technology and mass media. The final book of the trilogy started by the genrebusting pattern recognition, zero history continues with evocative, wellpaced writing and a mesmerizing plot. It concludes the informal trilogy begun by pattern recognition 2003 and continued by spook. Recognition, spook country, zero history, distrust that particular flavor, and the peripheral. The third book in william gibsons hightech trilogy is satsifying but the. The third in his blue ant series, published in 2010, william gibsons zero history is not really a part of a trilogy, the three books all being only loosely connected, and yet this is the one in which he most completely defines his subject. Zero history by william gibson william gibson the guardian. Pattern recognition is where gibson moved from being the sf novelist of neuromancer and mona lisa overdrive to a novelist of a somewhat contemporary world. Of william gibson the bigend trilogy stories by williams. Virtual light 1993 idoru 1996 all tomorrows parties 1999 blue ant trilogy.
William gibson, zero history something happened to william gibson on his way back from the future. The new yorker william gibson can craft sentences of. Again it was a fast paced and enjoyable story telling. His first novel, neuromancer, speculated with such accuracy on the. Really satisfied with this book a very thorough conclusion to the trilogy. William gibson has never expressed an interest in writing an autobiography.
Of william gibson the bigend trilogy not only is he a famous author, hes also a fellow bcite and the man who literally wrote the book on cyberpunk. It concludes the informal trilogy begun by pattern recognition and continued by spook country, and features the characters hollis henry and milgrim from the latter novel as its protagonists. Readers of neal stephenson, ray bradbury and iain m. William gibson talks zero history, paranoia and the awesome. William gibsons zero history is the third of a series of novels sometimes referred to as the bigend trilogy because hubertus bigend is the only character to appear in all three books. Pattern recognition 2003 spook country 2007 zero history 2010 single volumes. Count zero and mona lisa overdrive completed his first trilogy. Neuromancer 1984 count zero 1986 mona lisa overdrive 1988 bridge trilogy. The sprawl trilogy also known as the neuromancer, cyberspace or matrix trilogy is william gibsons first set of novels, composed of neuromancer 1984, count zero 1986 and mona lisa overdrive 1988. In his new novel zero history, william gibson parses the present day to.
William gibson is credited with having coined the term cyberspace and having envisioned both the internet and virtual reality before either existed. Followers of william gibsons pattern recognition trilogy, of which this is the third novel, will know the form perhaps too well. The third book in gibsons bigend trilogy, which includes pattern recognition and spook country, zero history brings back the rich tricksterproducer hubertus bigend, whose blue ant advertising. Zero history is a novel by william gibson published in 2010. Journalist steven poole wrote in the guardian that neuromancer and the two novels which followed, count zero 1986 and the gorgeously titled mona lisa overdrive 1988, made up a fertile holy trinity, a sort of chrome koran the name of one of gibsons future rock bands of ideas inviting endless reworkings. William gibsons first novel neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. Following the turn of the century and the events of 911, gibson emerged with a string of increasingly realist novelspattern recognition 2003, spook country 2007, and zero history 2010set in a roughly contemporary world. Count zero sprawl trilogy book 2 kindle edition by gibson, william. Gibson has penned some articles to some big publications and has worked with some artists, musicians, and filmmakers. He has written for the xfiles on two episodes with tom maddox. Back in 1982, he coined the word cyberspace, and his bridge trilogy of. The word play used by him can be disorienting and the most cathartic. Hollis is a rock singer employed by bigend to find the designer of an achingly trendy denim brand. After two decades and six novels depicting paradigmatic shifts in human consciousness, the man who invented cyberspace seemed to take a decision to deliberately narrow his horizons.