william gibson’s new book “zero history” arrives in september
ZERO HISTORY, William Gibson’s tenth novel arrives on the 7th of September, as advertised in the Putnam Fall 2010 catalogue. As a matter of fact, happy 62th birthday. (via zerohistory blog)
Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own. . . .
When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry’s face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn’t pay the rent, and right now she’s a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing; but there’s no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention.
Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the frst time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all that. Milgrim’s idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck.
The culture of the military has trickled down to the street–Bigend knows that, and he’ll fnd a way to take a cut. What surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he’s just not used to it staring back.
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The television skies of Chiba City branded his brains in 1992. He hasn't recovered fully since. Re-wired his brain with a few years of FastTracker, hosted radio shows on the first .hu netradio for 4 years, went on to broadcast radio for another two. Worked on the absurd radio series Kónuszék, that actually led him to become a script writer for the multiple-award winning, New York Times-acclaimed animation Nyócker.
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William Gibson on ‘Zero History’, in conversation for Intelligence Squared
Monday October 4th, 2010
Doors open at 6.15pm. The event will begin at 7.00pm and finish at 8.30pm.
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ
Tel: 020 7792 4830
Hashtag: #iq2gibson
‘In terms of influence he is probably the most important novelist of the past two decades’ Steven Poole, Guardian
American-born William Gibson is one of the most acclaimed and successful writers of the last twenty years. He coined the phrase “cyberspace” and developed the concept in his bestselling first novel Neuromancer, creating an iconography for the Information Age long before widespread use of the Internet. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy. He has written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit.
Gibson will be talking about his life and work, and in particular his new book Zero History, which is set largely in London and captures the paranoia and fear of our post-Crash times.
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