Idoru

Idoru
cover of the United Kingdom edition
AuthorWilliam Gibson
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBridge trilogy
GenreScience fiction, post-cyberpunk
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
September 4, 1996
Media typeprint (hardback and paperback), audiobook
Pages304
ISBN978-0-14-024107-5
OCLC39158749
Preceded byVirtual Light 
Followed byAll Tomorrow's Parties 

Idoru is the second book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. One of the main characters, Colin Laney, has a talent for identifying nodal points, analogous to Gibson's own:

Laney’s node-spotter function is some sort of metaphor for whatever it is that I actually do. There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them. Although I can’t tell you how; it’s a non-rational process.

— William Gibson, August 1999.[1]
  1. ^ Johnston, Anthony (August 1999). "William Gibson : All Tomorrow's Parties : Waiting For The Man". Spike. Retrieved 2007-07-13.