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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.

Idoru
All Tomorrow's Parties
Virtual light
Die Idoru. Trilogie

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  1. 1

    Virtual light

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.9(22107)Add rating

    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 light
  2. 2

    Idoru

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    The eagerly awaited, mind-bending new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Virtual Light and Neuromancer. Set in the 21st-century, postquake city of Tokyo, Idoru tells, with trademark Gibsonian innovation, the story of Rei Toei, the idoru, a media star loved by all Japan. But does she really, physically exist?

    Idoru
  3. 3

    All Tomorrow's Parties

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
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    Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic. Although All Tomorrow's Parties includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book.--Craig E. Engler

    All Tomorrow's Parties

  • Die Idoru. Trilogie

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    Die Metropolen der Zukunft wimmeln von realen und virtuellen Bewohnern. Während in San Francisco eine Fahrradkurierin einer geheimnisvollen Hightech-Brille auf der Spur ist, will ein berühmter Popstar in Tokio nichts sehnlicher, als eine Computerfigur zu heiraten …

    Die Idoru. Trilogie