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Bridge Series

Dive into a near-future landscape where the digital and physical worlds blur, exploring the fringes of society and the impact of advanced technology. This series follows intertwined characters navigating a world shaped by powerful corporations and nascent artificial intelligences. It's a compelling exploration of identity, reality, and the ever-shifting human condition in the face of rapid innovation.

Die Idoru. Trilogie
All tomorrow's parties
Idoru
Virtual light

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Virtual light

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

    Virtual light1
    3.9

  2. Idoru

    'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian Tokyo, post-event: After 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, Lo/Rez. 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 Lo/Rez'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 . . . 'Sharp, fast, bright . . . a must' Arena 'A classic technothriller . . . lean, evocative, tense' Wired

    Idoru2
    3.9

  3. All tomorrow's parties

    • 339 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    Living a down-and-out existence in Tokyo, Colin Laney is determined to make his way back to the United States and to San Francisco, where, thanks to his special sensitivities about people and events, he believes a pivotal moment in human history will take place sometime in the future.

    All tomorrow's parties3
    3.9

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