Title: Mature, humane, different.
Product review: The new Gibson novel, All Tomorrow's Parties revolves around data surfer/cowboy Colin Laney in a postworld San Francisco. Laney's orphic talent for sussing out nodal points is in full flow, anticipating a seachange in the world, the widespread dissemination of reproductive nanotechnology.(Oops) Laney's talent is the result of his exposure to a psychic drug in an orphanage. Halfway through the book I finally grasped the larger theme and the book builds well from page 132 on. This is one of his best novels, bringing his sci fi noir style to another pinnacle, and his'life goes on even after the deluge' messae comes across sharper than before. My nodal points were stimulated by some of the best descriptions Gibson has ever written, (one of his strengths for us struggling hacks)
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