William Gibson may not be getting any more inventive, but with each of his recent novels, his writing has become more consistently excellent. Spook Country is set in the present day (according to Gibson, we're living in the future now—it's just not "evenly distributed"), and it follows three intertwined story lines that eventually converge. There are spy antics, a "virtual reality" that makes sense, and a terrorism plot that I read as a condemnation of George W. Bush. Fun stuff.