Title: Spook Country
Title Record # 389291
Author: William Gibson
Date: 2007-07-05
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Blue Ant Trilogy
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: William Gibson
Date: 2007-07-05
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Blue Ant Trilogy
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Putnam first edition: "Spook: Spector, ghost, revenant, slang for "intelligence agent."
Country: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America. New improved edition, what lies before you, what lies behind.
Spook Country: The place where we all have landed, few by choice, the place where we are learning to live.
Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on investigative assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine, she's used to that, but it seems to be actively preventing the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they begin to exist. That would be odd, even a little scary, if Hollis allowed herself think about it much, which she can't afford to do.
Tito is in his early twenties. His family came from Cuba. He speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a warehouse in Manhattan, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.
Milgrim is a high-end junkie, hooked on prescription anti-anxiety drugs. He figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying the little bubble packs. What Brown is up to, Milgrim can't say. It seems to be military - at least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian is a very big part of it, as is breaking into locked rooms.
Bobby Chombo is a "producer.". In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one.
Hollis Henry has been told to find him."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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2 | 2008 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Nomination (as Code source) | 2009 Imaginaire | Roman étranger |
Nomination | 2017 Aurora | Best of the Decade |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Spook Country | 2007-00-00 | William Gibson | Books on Tape | 978-1-4159-4176-8 | audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | |||
Spook Country | 2007-07-05 | William Gibson | Penguin Audio | $20.25?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | |||
Spook Country | 2007-08-00 | William Gibson | Putnam | 978-0-399-15430-0 | $25.95?$: US dollar |
371 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | |
Spook Country | 2007-08-00 | William Gibson | Penguin Audio | 0-14-314220-8 | $29.95?$: US dollar |
audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | ||
Spook Country | 2007-08-00 | William Gibson | Viking UK | 978-0-670-91494-4 | £18.99?£: UK pound |
371 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | David H. Wells | |
Spook Country | 2007-08-02 | William Gibson | Viking | 978-0-670-91496-8 | £11.99?£: UK pound |
288 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Spook Country | 2007-08-07 | William Gibson | Berkley Books | 978-1-101-14728-3 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | ||
Spook Country | 2008-00-00 | William Gibson | Penguin Books | 978-0-14-103591-8 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
370 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Steve Harris | |
Spook Country | 2008-00-00 | William Gibson | Penguin Books | 978-0-14-101671-9 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
370 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Steve Harries | |
Spook Country | 2008-01-09 | William Gibson | Thorndike Press | 978-1-4104-0311-7 | $30.95?$: US dollar |
571 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Spook Country | 2008-03-00 | William Gibson | G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC | 978-0-7394-9241-3 / 1234123 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
371 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | |
Quellcode | 2008-03-01 | William Gibson | Klett-Cotta | 978-3-608-93769-5 | €22.95?€: Euro |
448 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Melanie Waltz | |
Code source | 2008-03-06 | William Gibson | Au Diable Vauvert | 978-2-84626-156-2 | €22.00?€: Euro |
491 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Olivier Fontvielle | |
Spook Country | 2008-06-00 | William Gibson | Berkley Books | 978-0-425-22141-9 | $15.00?$: US dollar |
374 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | |
Spook Country | 2008-07-31 | William Gibson | Penguin Books | 978-0-14-192358-1 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Spook Country | 2009-03-00 | William Gibson | Berkley Books | 978-0-425-22671-1 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
480 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Nicole LaRoche | |
Quellcode | 2010-05-00 | William Gibson | Heyne | 978-3-453-52680-8 | €9.95?€: Euro |
462 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Spook Country | 2011-07-28 | William Gibson | Penguin Books | 978-0-241-95354-9 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
370 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | David Wilson | |
Território fantasma | 2013-11-25 | William Gibson | Editora Aleph | 978-85-7657-157-5 | R$49.90?R$: Brazilian real |
400 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Pedro Inoue | |
Spook Country | date unknown | William Gibson | Penguin Books | 978-0-14-101671-9 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
370 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Steve Harries |
Reviews
- Review by Russell Letson (2007) in Locus, #558 July 2007
- Review by Graham Sleight (2007) in Strange Horizons, 27 August 2007
- Review [German] by John Clute (2008) in Pandora, Spring 2008
- Review [Dutch] by Tessel M. Bauduin [as by Tessel Bauduin] (2008) in Holland-SF 2008, #3
- Review by Keith Stevenson (2008) in Aurealis, #41
- Review by Colin Steele (2011) in SF Commentary, #81 , reprinted in:
- SF Commentary, #81 (2011)
- Review by Terence Taylor (2016) in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November-December 2016