All Tomorrow’s Parties
All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson, published by Penguin in August 2000, is a first edition work comprising 304 pages. This novel follows Colin Laney, a character with a unique sensitivity to patterns of information, as he navigates a dystopian landscape. Residing in a cardboard box in Tokyo, Laney experiences fever dreams while anticipating significant events unfolding in San Francisco, where reality is fluid and elusive.
Readers will encounter a richly woven narrative that explores themes of cyberpunk and hard science fiction. The story introduces a cast of intriguing characters, including a mysterious gray man and a boy named Silencio, who traverses the digital realm in search of inspiration. Additionally, Rei Toi, the Japanese Idoru, engages in her quest to understand humanity. Through these interconnected lives, the novel delves into the complexities of existence in a world where the boundaries of reality are constantly shifting.
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“The ferociously talented Gibson delivers his signature mélange of technopop splendor and post-industrial squalor” (Time) in this New York Times bestseller that features his hero from Idoru…
Colin Laney, sensitive to patterns of information like no one else on earth, currently resides in a cardboard box in Tokyo. His body shakes with fever dreams, but his mind roams free as always, and he knows something is about to happen. Not in Tokyo; he will not see this thing himself. Something is about to happen in San Francisco.
The mists make it easy to hide, if hiding is what you want, and even at the best of times reality there seems to shift. A gray man moves elegantly through the mists, leaving bodies in his wake, so that a tide of absences alerts Laney to his presence. A boy named Silencio does not speak, but flies through webs of cyber-information in search of the one object that has seized his imagination. And Rei Toi, the Japanese Idoru, continues her study of all things human. She herself is not human, not quite, but she’s working on it. And in the mists of San Francisco, at this rare moment in history, who is to say what is or is not impossible…
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