Idoru

Name: Idoru
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: William Gibson
ISBN: 9781977374608

Author: William Gibson

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/22/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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 . . .

About William Gibson

William Gibson is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace," and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. Many of his descriptions and metaphors have entered the culture as images of human relations in the electronic age, and he has an international reputation as the William Burroughs of the "wired" life. He is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. William lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on September 14, 2007

You know, it seems like I would really like William Gibson, from what I've heard of him, but there's something about his writing that leaves too much out. This book is the first of his I've been able to finish. I still don't feel like I understood everything he was trying to say--something about a m......more

Goodreads review by Matt (Fully supports developing sentient AGI) on June 07, 2024

I felt Gibson move back towards his usual style and structure pre-Virtual Light. I now think of Virtual Light as an experiment, an anomaly. Gibson trods familiar ground here with a focus on virtual spaces, cool physical spaces, identity, and emerging AI. And Gibson's in rare form with early uses of......more

Goodreads review by Rob on March 20, 2023

Quote: ...I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us. There is an odd surface tension here; some readers may approach Idoru from the wrong bias, through......more

Goodreads review by Ian on November 24, 2019

Alternating Narratives There are two alternating narratives in "Idoru". At the end, they merge and become one. "The job worked out." Rez is the singer in a half Irish, half Chinese band called Lo/Rez, which has outstayed its welcome to (and embrace of) celebrity, and released 26 albums (not counting c......more

Goodreads review by Howard on November 21, 2022

4 Stars for Idoru: Bridge, Book 2 (audiobook) by William Gibson read by John McLain. I love the worlds that William Gibson creates, but his plots can be hard to follow. I read Virtual Light in the 90’s a couple of times and ultimately enjoyed it. And this book is no different.......more