Joe Country started 9/12/26, Finished 9/14/26. Slough House, started 9/15/26, finished 9/16/26 I'm combining these books into one review, since it seems a little silly to be releasing two reviews one immediately after the other. I held onto theses reviews
Started 10/14/26, finished 10/17/26 All Tomorrow's Parties, the final book of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, is possibly his most complex work up to the time it was published, in 1999, with at least eight different point-of-view characters (I might be
Started 10/10/26, finished 10/12/26 Idoru, published in 1996, is the middle book William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like Virtual Light, it takes place in a world closer to our own than his Sprawl books. It uses social concerns and the technology that existed or could
Started 9/30/26, finished 10/6/26 Published in 1993, Virtual Light is the first of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. A step away from the futuristic cyberspace world of the Sprawl novels, Virtual Light takes place in a near-future California, now divided into two states, NoCal
Note: I’m a little behind in getting out reviews because I spent the weekend at Write On The Sound, a lovely little writer’s conference in Edmonds, Washington, just north of Seattle and yes, right on Puget Sound. While there, I took in a presentation called The Amateur Sleuth’
Started 9/24/26 Finished 9/25/26 Here at the end of what is commonly called "The Sprawl Trilogy," author William Gibson wraps up the story he began in Neuromancer, giving us both closure on characters and answers to questions posed in the earlier books...while stirring
Started 9/21/26, finished 9/24/26 While William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, defined a new genre of science fiction, his second book, Count Zero, solidified his standing as an author. The story is more sure, more complex, and overall better. Neuromancer was so world-changing for me
Started 9/8/26 Finished 9/9/26 If you look at the start and finish dates above, you'll see I went through this quickly (and then sat on this review for a few days). I noticed this trend the first time I read through all the Slow
Started 9/1/26, finished 9/4/26 Family has always been a part of the Slow Horses universe. There is, of course, the dysfunctional family of the slow horses themselves, who don't appear to care about each other but who act like siblings at war with one
Started 8/26/26, Finished 8/28/26 The third book of the Slow Horses series, Real Tigers finds our favorite ne’er do well secret agents getting into trouble in their usual non-secret ways. The story starts with Catherine Standish getting kidnapped. Catherine is the only non-spy
Started 8/21, finished 8/25 Dead Lions is the second of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series, the stories of a group of misfit British Secret Service agents in contemporary London. I’m working my way through the first five books of the series in hopes I can catch
Started 8/19/26, finished 8/21/26 This is the first review in a planned series covering all of William Gibson’s fiction. The rest are going to have to wait until I read a few more Slow Horses books, though. With the Apple TV adaptation of William Gibson’