Virtual Light

Name: Virtual Light
Rating: 3.787769784172662 (139 reviews)
Author: William Gibson
ISBN: 9783807702810

by William Gibson

3.8

(139 ratings)

Bridge #1369 pages29 editions1993Rogner & Bernhard bei ZweitausendeinsISBN 9783807702810

fiction science fiction fantasy dystopian thriller mystery

About this book

California, the not so distant future. Berry, ex-cop/private security, looking to just make ends meet. Chevette, a young bicycle messanger. A murder, a secret missing, and a murderer closing in on Chevette. Berry is the only thing standing between him and Chevette. Can he keep her alive long enough to figure why, and how to stop it? Multi-national corporations, reality tv, a world gone just a bit more ragged than our own. Murder, mystery, real people just trying to get by or survive another day in an harsh world. Big dome private communities and shanty towns built on the discarded remains of a bridge we all know. High tech meets duct tape and superglue. With his unique style and flair, Gibson spins a tale set in a world just to the left of ours.

Publication Details

Publisher: Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins
Published: 1993
Pages: 369
ISBN: 9783807702810
Language: fr
Editions: 29

About William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, *Neuromancer* (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. ([Source][1]) Photo by [FredArmitage][2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/1057613629/