Author | William Gibson |
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Language | English |
Series | Bridge trilogy |
Genre | Science fiction, post-cyberpunk |
Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | September 4, 1996 |
Media type | print (hardback and paperback), audiobook |
Pages | 304 |
ISBN | 978-0-14-024107-5 |
OCLC | 39158749 |
Preceded by | Virtual Light |
Followed by | All 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]