Book description
All Tomorrow's Parties - a groundbreaking novel from William
Gibson, author of Neuromancer
'Scintillating . . . probably the most important novelist of the
past two decades' Guardian
'Writing at flame intensity, Gibson conjures a world that seems just
a breath away from the here and now' Salon
The Bridge, San Francisco, after the quake:
Ex-cop Berry Rydell has been hired by Colin Laney - who is hooked
deep into the network of things - to go to San Francisco and act in
such a way that he comes to the attention of a certain unspecified
individual. This, Laney promises Rydell, could prove life-threatening.
And now Rydell's been sent a package. Something that belonged to
Laney, something that others with guns, blades and very bad attitudes
want. And suddenly Rydell's running, trying get to the old Bridge, the
shantytown where a man can get lost, be forgotten and wait for the end
of the world - which is the other thing that Laney promised . . .
William Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an
outstanding architect of cool. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray
Bradbury and Iain M. Banks will love this book. This is the third
novel in the Bridge trilogy - read Virtual Light and
Idoru for more.
'With more insight, wit and sheer style than any of his
contemporaries Gibson continues to patrol the nebulous zones that
separate science fiction, contemporary thrillers and genuine
literature' Independent
William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer has sold more than
six million copies worldwide. In an earlier story he had invented the
term 'cyberspace'; a concept he developed in the novel, creating an
iconography for the Information Age long before the invention of the
Internet. The book won three major literary prizes. He has since
written nine further novels including Count Zero; Mona Lisa
Overdrive; The Difference Engine; Virtual Light; Idoru; All
Tomorrow's Parties; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country and most
recently Zero History. He is also the author of Distrust
That Particular Flavor, a collection of non-fiction writing.
William Gibson is the award-winning author of
Pattern Recognition
,
Neuromancer
,
Count Zero
,
Mona Lisa Overdrive
,
The Difference Engine
,
Virtual Light
and most recently,
Spook Country
. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
