Simon Ings – Wolves
I tore through this in no time at all.
Set in the near-future, expanding on the Google-specs theme to
optical implants and treatment for servicemen blinded in battle, it
examined the border between augmented reality and an actual reality
that is observer-dependent and therefore subjective in any case.
There's a whole lot more than that going on, too. Coming-of-age
flashbacks, a murder / suicide mystery, a love triangle.
Every book should leave you with some
lines embedded. The narrating character in Wolves
on stupidity (I'm not flicking back to quote exactly, but it's
something like this):
“Stupidity isn't a lack of
intelligence. It isn't a lack of knowledge. Stupidity isn't a lack or
an absence, at all. It is a powerful force.”
There's a copy
available as of tomorrow, when I return it to the library.
William Gibson
He writes in threes. The Sprawl
trilogy, The Bridge trilogy, The Blue Ant trilogy. This is the truth:
“The future is aready here –
it's just not evenly distributed.”
We're due the first instalment of the
fourth trilogy. Soon.
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