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Zero History de William Gibson
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Zero History (2010 original; edició 2010)

de William Gibson (Autor)

Sèrie: Blue Ant (3)

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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.… (més)
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Títol:Zero History
Autors:William Gibson (Autor)
Informació:G.P. Putnam's Sons (2010), 416 pages
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Zero History de William Gibson (2010)

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Fun enough. The fascination with tactical gear, the market for it, as an instance of the secret style of marketing we heard about in the first Blue Ant book. There are some clunky bits here... how exactly the DCIS special agent fits in, what her function is, why is she essential to the action. I kept expecting some grand plot development to hinge on her involvement, but I never saw it. Fiona and Milgrim? Maybe, I guess. What women want, I have certainly never figured it out! Bigend is always problematic. I guess if you like the Bourne stories, there is always limitless access to resources... I guess private interests can scale up to public resources... I've just never hung out with billionaires!

Anyway, there was plenty of action and twists and turns... it sure kept me turning the page! ( )
  kukulaj | Mar 8, 2024 |
Gibson weaves together a story that is part a criminal mystery and part a speculation on the near future. Written in 2010, some of his observations on the advance of technology with resulting problems, such as the use of street cameras, have already come about. The mystery is centred around the fashion and music industries and involves design espionage and the aim to capture lucrative manufacturing contracts. With a varied cast of characters, each with their own individual aims, the story explores how successful or not they may be. This makes for an unusual tale, seeming to be a critique of how society values the outward surface, rather than looking at the actions beneath, however I felt that it was rather slight after some of his earlier novels.
  camharlow2 | Jan 24, 2024 |
I am not really sure what to make of the recent Gibson novels I have read. I still think he is one of the best prose stylists writing today, but I don't have a good sense of what is going on in this novel thematically. He has removed most of the dystopian elements which defined his early themes -- how people are trapped in a system where their worth is defined in a brutal assessment of what skills they bring to the table and how a few "cool", highly talented people are able to regain some portion of their autonomy. Usually via interfacing with some sort of gadget.

The gadgets are still there, as are the "cool" talented people but now they are functioning in a somewhat mundane capitalist system. Still trapped, but if the theme is "Focus on honing your unique skills, and maybe you too will find the cool gadgets/jeans!" it feels pretty empty. ( )
  audient_void | Jan 11, 2024 |
I dunno about this one. I never did figure out what they were doing or who all these people were. So much depended on remembering the two earlier books (which I didn't), and so much that was going on was ambiguous. Usually this is the kind of stuff I like but I couldn't wrap myself around it this time. Still, I read the whole thing, so there. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
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.
  Natt90 | Sep 26, 2022 |
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"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."
afegit per bookfitz | editaKirkus Reviews (Jul 15, 2010)
 
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.
 

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William Gibsonautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Dean, RobertsonNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
LaRoche, NicoleDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Tamás, DénesTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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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.

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