{"product_id":"idoru-isbn-9780425158647","title":"Idoru","description":"\u003cb\u003e“The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we’re entering daily. \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e made Gibson famous; \u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e cements that fame.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e21st 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...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColin 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Rei Toei is the \u003ci\u003eidoru\u003c\/i\u003e—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 \u003ci\u003eidoru\u003c\/i\u003e and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger...“\u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e induces reader anxiety, an almost hurtful need to jack into the next page...Every word is where it should be—lean, evocative, tense. Popular culture is William Gibson’s playground. Enjoy the ride.”—\u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e is a prophecy, a prayer for information baths that never drown the supplicant. It is also a text on paper, beautifully written, dense with metaphors that open the eyes to the new, dreamlike, intensely imagined, deeply plausible. It is a profoundly cunning advertisement for a world whose enclosed spaces—and infinite domains within the skull—we had better be prepared to join.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Gibson’s vision is disturbing, his speculation brilliant and his prose immaculate, cementing his reputation as the premier visionary working in SF today.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Gibson envisions a future in which the lines between the virtual and the actual are terminally blurred. How ‘real’ are today's celebrities?...What will happen when the Web allows anyone—anyone at all—to be a star? With characteristic brilliance, the writer who invented the word \u003ci\u003ecyberspace\u003c\/i\u003e looks for answers.”—\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gibson remains, like Chandler, an intoxicating stylist...Clever and provocative scenery...vivid, slangy prose. Chia is one of his most winning creations.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Spooky...[\u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e is] a sharp satire on the uses and abuses of technology and has much to tell us about the dangerous path science has laid out for us.”—\u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gibson's trademark of high-tech pyrotechnics and dark psychological comedy is in evidence throughout \u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e, and his characters are as compelling as ever. Gibson’s novel should come with a warning label: \u003ci\u003eObjects in novel may be closer than they appear\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Gibson\u003c\/b\u003e’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCount Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBurning Chrome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa Overdrive\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirtual Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Tomorrow’s Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePattern Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpook Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZero History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistrust That Particular Flavor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Peripheral\u003c\/i\u003e. 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