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Title: Gibson at his best
Review: Yes, fine, OK, this is Mr. Gibson's first novel set in the "present," but so much that seemed unfamiliar two decades ago now seems familiar, so the contemporary setting isn't so jarring as it would have been in the mid-1980s.Anyway, the inventor of "cyberpunk" has never been better than in this beautifully written (he refers to a decaying part of Tokyo's infrastructure as having been "bladerunnered"), beautifully paced and plotted tale of a woman allergic to trademarks, who sets off to find out who's been putting frames of a movie on the Web, all the while being pursued by a hilariously inept bunch of baddies (Boris and Natasha were better).It's serious fun.
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