All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson

"All Tomorrow's Parties" is the third book to be set in Gibson's futuristic vision of San Fransico's Golden Gate Bridge - a lawless high-rise shanty town, populated by cyber-hippies, streetwise bohemians, and a cast of future-urban street traders lifted straight out of the set of Bladerunner. The plot will be *totally* mystifying if you haven't already read the earlier books, so I'm not even going to try to explain things here, but interweaves the stories of ex-cop Rydell (hero of the previous book - bored with his current job as a security officer at a convenience store and ready for adventure), Chevette (his 'ex'), Rei-Toy (the ...  Read the complete review

To anyone who has read any of William Gibsons books they will know him for a spinner of dark cyber punk fiction that is set in a future not far removed from our own. All Tomorrows Parties finishes up the tale began in Virtual light following Rydell a good natured old fashioned Southerner whose character is set against the stark futuristic characters that inhabit Gibsons world. He leaves his job as security at the Lucky Dragon convenience store to help a friend and this time for money. Laney has fallen pray to the obsession that is the feared side effect of the drug that gives him his ability with data. Rydell accompanied by an Idouro (a ...  Read the complete review