In this utterly wild and brilliant book by William Gibson, two characters' narratives intersect to reveal the story of a famous rockstar - Rez of the band Lo/Rez - who is determined to marry an idoru, or virtual celebrity, despite the objections of his P.R. team and devoted, massive, scarred bodyguard Blackwell. Set in the near (but technologically greatly advanced) future, the intersecting narratives are from the perspectives of Chia, a fourteen-year-old Lo/Rez fan and skilled hacker from Seattle, and Laney, a hacker with an uncanny ability to detect "nodal points" in data. The theme of emergence is evidenced at the meta- as well as macro-level, wherein the individual stories interact to create a totality which far exceeds the sum of its parts. The tale is a true page-turner, and rife with crazy characters and novel ideas. Definitely worth reading!!**Update**
Helpful info from Colin: Gibson's 3 Trilogies (turns out this is book 2 of one of them - oops)
Gibson's 3 Trilogies:
The Sprawl Trilogy:
- Neuromancer
- Count Zero
- Mona Lisa Overdrive
- Virtual Light
- Idoru
- All Tomorrow's Parties
I wanna read this! Lauren, you kindly left Idoru here, but not Virtual Light (the first in the trilogy), so I guess I'll have to get that from the library! Although, maybe I want to finish up my Colin-induced Kim Stanley Robinson mania first.
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