I'm a huge fan of William Gibson -- the Vancouver, BC author who wrote Pattern Recognition and is best known for inventing cyberspace in his book Neuromancer years before the Internet. Gibson's Spook Country is due out next month, but the book turned out much different than his original proposal (available here on Amazon.com). Gibson pitched it as a mysterious war blogger in Iraq who tracks Osama Bin Laden. But Spook Country has turned out to be a story about an investigative journalist who writes about virtual reality for a magazine that may not even exist. As blogger Peter Darbyshire writes, "I want to read both." Gibson gives a preview in a video clip on his site. "More of these characters are informed by who I am than I've previously been able to manage," he expains.