Gibson William: All Tomorrow's Parties

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§The flow of information is about to be disrupted...§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 of San Francisco 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...§ All Tomorrow´s Parties - William Gibson From the "New York Times" bestselling author who coined the term "cyberspace, " and who envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed, comes this bestselling novel--now in mass market paperback--that brings back his hero from "Idoru" in a startling tale of a shift in time and cyberspace. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature od Berkeley Books naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! All Tomorrow's Parties is the perfect novel to publish at the end of the 20th century. It brings back Colin Laney, one of the most popular characters from Idoru, the man whose special sensitivities about people and events let him predict certain aspects of the future. Laney has realized that the disruptions everyone expected to happen at the beginning of the year 2000, which in fact did not happen, are still to come. Though down-and-out in Tokyo, his sense of what is to come tells him that the b The ferociously talented Gibson delivers his signature melange of technopop splendor and post-industrial squalor (Time) in this New York Times bestseller that features his hero from Idoru...Colin Lane