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Aug 26, 2007 four years later, spook country, gibsons first novel since pattern recognition, moves farther from sciencefiction speculation and immerses itself fully in modernist realism. The united states of america, new improved edition. Blue ant series by william gibson free download epub. William gibson inspects the present, and it is just as weird and wired as you suspect. William ford gibson born march 17, 1948 is an americancanadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. The cool and scarysan francisco chronicle new york times bestseller from the author of pattern recognition and neuro.
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