3.8
Idoru (b) Pattern Recognition
Set in futuristic Tokyo, rebuilt after an earthquake, this is the story of a rock star who decides to marry a non-existent,virtual reality girl; the bemused American security consultant who has been sent to take care of him; and a teenage fan. A witty futuristic thriller.
"Fast,witty and lovingly painted" GUARDIAN
"Confirms Gibson as a realist writer for the post-Net generation" TLS
"A true BLADERUNNER for the Nineties" GQ
FictionLiteraryPsychologicalScience FictionHard Science FictionCity Life
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERPenguin Adult
LENGTH304
LANGUAGEEN
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, *Neuromancer* (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. ([Source][1]) Photo by [FredArmitage][2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/1057613629/
3.8
Idoru (b) Pattern Recognition
Set in futuristic Tokyo, rebuilt after an earthquake, this is the story of a rock star who decides to marry a non-existent,virtual reality girl; the bemused American security consultant who has been sent to take care of him; and a teenage fan. A witty futuristic thriller.
"Fast,witty and lovingly painted" GUARDIAN
"Confirms Gibson as a realist writer for the post-Net generation" TLS
"A true BLADERUNNER for the Nineties" GQ
FictionLiteraryPsychologicalScience FictionHard Science FictionCity LifePerforming ArtsMusic
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERPenguin Adult
LENGTH304
LANGUAGEEN
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, *Neuromancer* (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. ([Source][1]) Photo by [FredArmitage][2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/1057613629/
