Wow! Just finished reading “Idoru” by William Gibson, such an excellent book! I would call William Gibson’s books not only the “Sprawl” series, but also the “Bridge” series… as kind of a day in the life of a cyberpunk dystopia. You learn about the way people live, young and old in these possible future dystopian realities. What their day to day life looks like, the privileges they have, the fucked up way the world works.
William Gibson could see where the world was going, and wrote these novels as a warning for us, not to do, not to follow in these steps.
Here’s the blurb from Amazon:
21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature…
Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the “signature” an individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful—to certain people.
Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She’s fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out.
Rei Toei is the idoru—the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo. True or not, the idoru and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger…
I’ve been off of fiction for 3.5(ish) years, and this was a great way to get back in to it! I would highly recommend reading this!!
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