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Idoru
Idoru - a gripping techno-thriller by William Gibson bestselling author of Neuromancer'Fast witty and cleverly politicized' GuardianTokyo post-eventAfter an attack of scruples Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way - and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo LoRez Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi - she exists only in virtual reality - and this creates complications that Laney a net runner is supposed to sort out But when Chai part of LoRez's fan club turns up unaware that she's carrying illegal nanoware for the Russian Kombinat Laney's scruples nudge him towards trouble all over again And this time lawyers'll be the least of his worries William Gibson is a prophet and
a satirist a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool Readers of Neal Stephenson Ray Bradbury and Iain M Banks will love this book Idoru is the second novel in the Bridge trilogy - read Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties for more'Sharp fast bright a must' Arena'A classic technothriller lean evocative tense' Wired'Luxuriate in prose simultaneously as hard and laconic as Elmore Leonard's and as glacially poetic as JG Ballard's an exhilarating ride' New StatesmanWilliam Gibson's first novel Neuromancer has sold more than six million copies worldwide In an earlier story he had invented the term 'cyberspace'; a concept he developed in the novel creating an iconography for the Information Age long before the invention of the Internet The book won three major literary prizes He
has since written nine further novels including Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive; The Difference Engine; Virtual Light; Idoru; All Tomorrow's Parties; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country and most recently Zero History He is also the author of Distrust That Particular Flavor a collection of non-fiction writing
a satirist a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool Readers of Neal Stephenson Ray Bradbury and Iain M Banks will love this book Idoru is the second novel in the Bridge trilogy - read Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties for more'Sharp fast bright a must' Arena'A classic technothriller lean evocative tense' Wired'Luxuriate in prose simultaneously as hard and laconic as Elmore Leonard's and as glacially poetic as JG Ballard's an exhilarating ride' New StatesmanWilliam Gibson's first novel Neuromancer has sold more than six million copies worldwide In an earlier story he had invented the term 'cyberspace'; a concept he developed in the novel creating an iconography for the Information Age long before the invention of the Internet The book won three major literary prizes He
has since written nine further novels including Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive; The Difference Engine; Virtual Light; Idoru; All Tomorrow's Parties; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country and most recently Zero History He is also the author of Distrust That Particular Flavor a collection of non-fiction writing
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