WT Library

All Tomorrow's Parties

Author(s): Gibson, William

Pages: 277

Year: 1999-10-25

Publisher: Putnam Adult

URL: http://www.amazon.com/All-Tomorrows-Parties-William-Gibson/dp/0399145796%3F…

ISBN: 399145796

Abstract: Book Description: William Gibson, who predicted the Internet with Neuromancer, takes us into the millennium with a brilliant new novel about the moments in history when futures are born. 'Gibson remains, like Raymond Chandler, an intoxicating stylist.'--The New York Times Book Review All Tomorrow's Parties is the perfect novel to publish at the end of 1999. It brings back Colin Laney, one of the most popular characters from Idoru, the man whose special sensitivities about people and events let him predict certain aspects of the future. Laney has realized that the disruptions everyone expected to happen at the beginning of the year 2000, which in fact did not happen, are still to come. Though down-and-out in Tokyo, his sense of what is to come tells him that the big event, whatever it is, will happen in San Francisco. He decides to head back to the United States--to San Francisco--to meet the future. The Washington Post praised Idoru as 'beautifully written, dense with metaphors that open the eyes to the new, dreamlike, intensely imagined, deeply plausible.' A bestseller across the country (it reached #1 in Los Angeles and San Francisco), and a major critical success, it confirmed William Gibson's position as 'the premier visionary working in SF today' (Publishers Weekly). All Tomorrow's Parties is his next brilliant achievement.

Category: Fiction

Location: Arnhem

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