Idoru“The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we’re entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame.”—The Washington Post Book World 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature... Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the “signature” an individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful—to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She’s fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru—the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo. True or not, the idoru and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger... |
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User Review - antiquary - LibraryThingThis is set in roughly the same cyberpunk world as Neuromancer, but the style is more subtle and complex, which I must confess means less accessible for me. It occurs in the highly technologized Japan ... Read full review
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User Review - wealhtheowwylfing - LibraryThingA fast-paced, exciting story about the intersections of realities and identity. This is also one of the rare books that gets the mindset behind fandom. An impressive piece of cyberpunk. Read full review
Contents
3Almost a Civilian | |
4Venice Decompressed | |
5Nodal Points | |
6DESH | |
7The Wet Warm Life in Alison Shires | |
8Narita | |
25The Idoru | |
26Hak Nam | |
27That Physical Thing | |
28A Matter of Credit | |
29Her Bad Side | |
30The Etruscan | |
31The Way Things Work | |
32The Uninvited | |
9Out of Control | |
10Whiskey Clone | |
11Collapse of New Buildings | |
12Mitsuko | |
13Character Recognition | |
14Tokyo Chapter | |
15Akihabara | |
16Zona | |
17The Walls of Fame | |
18The Otaku | |
19Arleigh | |
20Monkey Boxing | |
21Standover Man | |
22Gomi Boy | |
23Here at the Western World | |
24Hotel Di | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Idoru |
| Author | William Gibson |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1101158050, 9781101158050 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Dystopian Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction |
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