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Cargando... Zero History (Blue Ant Book 3) (2010 original; edición 2010)por William Gibson (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Hollis, investigadora de tendencias de avanzada y ex cantante, vuelve a trabajar para el magnate del marketing global Hubertus Bigend en el último de sus planes lunáticos y brillantes: investigar las sutiles conexiones que existen entre el diseño de ropa para combate militar y los últimos avances de la moda textil, de modo de hacerse con un cuantioso contrato del Departamento de Defensa y descubrir, en el proceso, el jean perfecto. Pero las cosas se complican cuando una empresa rival está, utilizando esos mismos contratos para tráfico de drogas y armas, y, por más que nadie puede hacerle sombra a Bigend en el sinuoso mundo de las últimas tendencias globales, ahora el juego se ha vuelto mucho más difícil y peligroso. Después de País de espías, William Gibson vuelve a diseccionar con su frío y preciso bisturí, el mundo ultramoderno en que vivimos, donde la ferviente cacería por lo más avanzado en marcas, modelos y artilugios revela un pánico desesperado y una aterradora carrera hacia delante.
"Instead, it feels as if Gibson is going through the motions, as if he's gone back to the pattern once too often, setting up a story — centered by Hollis' efforts to find that designer — that we've seen before." "His trenchant scrutiny of society and culture, and the relentless precision of his prose force us to see his world (and ours) with a troubling exactitude and an extra dose of unease." "To read Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future, because it seems the present is becoming the future faster than it is becoming the past." "What matters are the highly textured, brilliantly evocative prose and the stunning insights Gibson offers into what we perceive as the present moment—the implication being, per the title, that's all we have left." This flatness is the strangest feature of the world of Zero History, and more generally of the trilogy it completes. There's no question that, taken together, these three books represent one of the first great novels of 21st-century data culture. But there's no dirt in view – no muss. The cities of Neuromancer were crumbling into a kipple of obsolete technology, litter and grime. Cyberspace – clean, rational, clutterless – offered an alternative reality for those with the skills and the technology to gain access, while the wealthy could escape to exclusive orbital country-club cantons. Now that the future is here, Gibson's readers, like his protagonists, seem condemned to cities that are all surface, while yearning for a glimpse of something seedier, stickier, more troubling. Pertenece a las seriesBlue Ant (3) PremiosDistinciones
Former rock singer Hollis Henry and ex-addict Milgrim, an accomplished linguist, are at the front line of a sinister proprietor's attempts to get a slice of the military budget. When a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers, they gradually realize their employer has some very dangerous competitors--including Garreth, a ruthless ex-military officer with lots of friends. Set largely in London after our post-Crash times. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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