(January 2018)
The last of the Sprawl trilogy and,
ironically, a rather contained affair. Though I am writing this a couple of
months after reading, and my memory isn’t what it was. It all takes place in a derelict
factory and the wider fields of cyberspace, which I suppose is the point—the
disconnect between the physical and the virtual.
It’s not one of Gibson’s stronger works, to
be honest. All the loose ends seem to get wrapped up rather too neatly, to the
point where the reappearance of certain characters seems to verge on fan
service. Which reminds me that Molly Millions plays a significant part and
that, actually, quite a lot of stuff happens in London and other cities so my
opening line was touch unfair. Still and all, it does eventually boil down to a
guy on a gurney wired into the matrix, so I wasn’t all wrong.
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