Various things, but amongst them:
It’s deserted. It seems like functionally it has to be deserted. If it’s not deserted it crashes. So there’s all this empty, empty architecture. There’s whole cities where there’s only one other person and they don’t even want to get close to you. And when you do succeed in finding a group of other avatars, people aren’t very nice. #
Very much looking forward to Spook Country, and really should go back and re-read Pattern Recognition, just for the hell of it.
PS: Wired also has a small snippet-interview up.
I am also waiting anxiously.
I recently finished my bi-annual read of all his books.
William Gibson is my absolute favorite author, and he releases new books so slowly that I am really ready for a fix by the time he delivers.
I really like his new now style as seen in Pattern Recognition (of which I have a signed first edition), but I hope he returns to the near future stuff of the Bridge Trilogy later on.