title: Yankee Journal
author:  Harold Putnam 
description: "A pithy autobiography." -- <i>The Rotarian, December 1998</i>
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  **spook country**
  
   **ALSO BY WILLIAM GIBSON**
  
   _Neuromancer_
  
  _Count Zero_
  
  _Burning Chrome_
  
  _Mona Lisa Overdrive_
  
  _Virtual Light_
  
  _Idoru_
  
  _All Tomorrow’s Parties_
  
  _Pattern Recognition_
  
  **WILLIAM GIBSON**
  
   **spook country**
  
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