Zero History
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 Cover of the United Kingdom edition |
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| Author(s) | William Gibson |
| Publisher | Viking |
| Publication date | September 2, 2010 (United Kingdom) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 0670919527 |
Zero History is a novel by William Gibson published in 2010. It concludes the informal trilogy begun by Pattern Recognition (2003) and continued by Spook Country (2007), and features the characters Hollis Henry and Milgrim from the latter novel as its protagonists.
Plot
Hollis Henry and Milgrim find themselves in London working for Hubertus Bigend, unaware that their lives previously crossed in Spook Country. One of Bigend's current interests is fashion, particularly the intersection between streetwear, workwear and military clothing.
He asks Henry and Milgrim to investigate a secret brand, named Gabriel Hounds after the English legend. At the same time, he becomes aware that a coup is being plotted within his company, Blue Ant.
During the course of the novel, Milgrim is threatened by others in what is implied to be a corporate espionage plot suborned by rogue members of the United States military. A parallel subplot tracks Hollis as she tracks down Garreth, the mysterious daredevil featured in Spook Country, and the Gabriel Hounds designer, implied but not expressly stated to be Cayce Pollard.
Collaboration
Gibson acknowledges the help of other authors[1]:
- Cory Doctorow provided the description of a smartphone.
- Bruce Sterling provided the concept of a t-shirt that is not recorded by CCTV.
References
- ^ Zero History, Thanks section.
External links
- Zero History at WilliamGibsonBooks.com (official website)
- "Prepare for ZERO HISTORY by William Gibson", excerpts from the novel read by the author accompanied by promotional images at YouTube
- Portal of Reviews of Zero History
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