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All Tomorrow's Parties (novel)
''All Tomorrow's Parties'' is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, the third and final book in his ''Bridge trilogy''. Like its predecessors, ''All Tomorrow's Parties'' is a speculative fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, postcyberpunk future. The novel borrows its title from a All Tomorrow's Parties (song), song by Velvet Underground. It is written in the third person and deals with Gibsonian themes of Emerging technologies, emergent technology. The novel was initially published by Viking Press on October 7, 1999. Plot summary The book has three separate but overlapping stories, with the repeated appearance of shared characters. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge, the overarching setting of the trilogy, functions as a shared location of their convergence and resolution. The first story features former cop Berry Rydell, the protagonist of ''Virtual Light''. Rydell quits a temporary job as a security guard at the Lucky Dragon convenience s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term " cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel ''Neuromancer'' (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s. After expanding on the story in ''Neuromancer'' with two more novels (''Count Zero'' in 1986, and ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' in 1988), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
