All Tomorrow Parties (Audible Audio Edition) William Gibson Jonathan Davis Audible Studios Books
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Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend, Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly runs the world, and the apocalyptic technological transformation of, well, everything.
William Gibson's new novel, set in the soon-to-be-fact world of Virtual Light and Idoru, completes a stunning, brilliantly imagined trilogy about the post-Net world.
All Tomorrow Parties (Audible Audio Edition) William Gibson Jonathan Davis Audible Studios Books
Gibson's talent for seeing plausible future technologies based on current progressions is on full display here. He weaves another twisting tale of lovers, an enigmatic hunter, two techno-prognosticators, and an emergent digital entity approaching a fundamental change in the nature of their reality. A worthy conclusion to his Bridge Trilogy, which started with Virtual Light and continued in Idoru.Product details
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All Tomorrow Parties (Audible Audio Edition) William Gibson Jonathan Davis Audible Studios Books Reviews
Haven't found a William Gibson book (that he wrote by himself) that I haven't loved.
Not Gibson's strongest outing, but I like him a lot and this one kept my attention. It's a nice sequel to the Bridge Series and wraps up some hanging character threads.
I'm rereading Gibson's three trilogies for the umpteenth time. For me the Bridge Trilogy is the most enjoyable read. Not necessarily the best written,or most prophetic,but the most enjoyable. Likable characters,elegant prose,and a ending that leaves hope for the human condition. What more can a soul ask for. Well done,Mr. Gibson.
William Gibson is a master storyteller whose work will still be fresh two hundred years from now. Read all his books, your mind will thank you.
I don't give five star reviews easily. Nevertheless, I'll say that both stylistically and in terms of dealing with real ideas about the future, this is Gibson's best or second best book.
As others have noted, he's stylistically back to the evocative, Delaney-inspired prose that made _Neuromancer_ and so many of his short stories work so well. And the characterization is much stronger than in the previous installations of the series. It eschews the contrived "gotta have a plot" scripting of _Virtual Light_ and _Idoru_ in favor of a well-thought-out progression toward an end that, as another reviewer has noted, passes almost too quickly to see -- a typical "Gibson ending", to be sure.
As for the future he depicts.... let's just say that in its own way, it's one of the more chilling dystopias I've ever encountered, wherein society and culture are made manifest in lawsuits and trash TV, and grim hope lives out on the margins in the "autonomous zones"....
A "puppet" (in this novel a virtual personality constucted in software) yearns to be a real boy (in this novel... a real girl!).
This fine book is the culmination of couple of pseudo-episodic Gibson novels...his writing gets better and better and some of the passages are almost impossibly beautiful in their spare conciseness and wonderful language/syntax. Highly recommended for reading out-loud to (or by) your partner.
Gibson skillfully weaves the theory of historical inflection points (or cusps) into a story about how an artifical intelligence/personality (who apparently yearns to be free) manipulates various characters and the public nano-compiler network in order to become embodied as a young woman!
If you didn't catch that your first time through, read it again!
Told almost entirely from the meats' point of view and populated with hints of themes to come in Gibson's following (and very highly recommended) book, Pattern Recognition. Also, for relevant background, read the previous novel Idoru.
All tomorrow's parties take place largely on the golden gate bridge which has been taken over by squatters who live in a post industrial free trade zone where anything goes.
With the hero living in a box in the Tokyo subway, the villian having the power of Bill Gates and the President, and the pawns roaming around San Francisco looking to escape their past this book has more of the elements of a traditional story than something new and insightful.
The book itself while not a sequel is largely a bridge as well -- a holding action for the characters to develop a little and end with one significant event at the end. Significant not from the books perspective but for a future storyline.
For fans of Gibson, who would read his work regardless of what I say, this is a good work.
For people trying to understand and learn more about Gibson and the Cyber punk world, then I suggest Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive. This book does not have enough of a story to really be of value to the casual Gibson reader.
Gibson's talent for seeing plausible future technologies based on current progressions is on full display here. He weaves another twisting tale of lovers, an enigmatic hunter, two techno-prognosticators, and an emergent digital entity approaching a fundamental change in the nature of their reality. A worthy conclusion to his Bridge Trilogy, which started with Virtual Light and continued in Idoru.
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