Idoru"
- a gripping techno-thriller by William Gibson bestselling author of " Neuromancer". " Fast witty & cleverly politicized". (" Guardian"). Tokyo post-event: After an attack of scruples Colin Laneys skipped out on his former employer Slitscan
- avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way
- & taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo Lo/ Rez. Rez has announced hes going to marry an idoru by the name of Rei Toi
- she exists only in virtual reality
- & this creates complications that Laney a net runner is supposed to sort out. But when Chai part of Lo/ Rezs fan club turns up unaware that shes carrying illegal nanoware for the Russian Kombinat Laneys scruples nudge him towards trouble all over again. & this time lawyersll be the least of his worries... William Gibson is a prophet & a satirist a black comedian & an outstanding architect of cool. Readers of Neal Stephenson Ray Bradbury & Iain M. Banks will love this book. " Idoru" is the second novel in the Bridge trilogy
- read " Virtual Light" & " All Tomorrows Parties" for more. " Sharp fast bright.. .a must". (" Arena"). "A classic technothriller.. .lean evocative tense". (" Wired"). " Luxuriate in prose simultaneously as hard & laconic as Elmore Leonards & as glacially poetic as JG. Ballards.. .an exhilarating ride". (" New Statesman"). William Gibsons 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 Tomorrows Parties"; " Pattern Recognition"; " Spook Country" & most recently " Zero History". He is also the author of " Distrust That Particular Flavor" a collection of non-fiction writing."