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    <body><![CDATA[Review – All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson<br/><br/>Articles about William Gibson usually talk about his weird ability to predict the future. I’m going to stay true to that form here, because one of the joys of reading old science fiction – not that All Tomorrow’s Parties, publish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49784150">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished All Tomorrow's Parties, and now I have more questions than answers. I think I will go read some Amazon comments and see if things start making more sense. His books are so rich with ideas, that there seems an endless number of essays you could write on them. But, I'm having trouble so far...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38813853">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge Trilogy, #3)]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A follow-up from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32756727">&quot;Idoru&quot;</a>, but with an undetermined time in between them, this book carries alot of the same concepts, characters, and landscapes over.<br/><br/>However, while Laney plays a major role, he's not the focus of the book, and neither is Tokyo... the focus is mostly on Rydell, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32957188">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel <em>Idoru</em>) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see &quot;nodal points&quot; in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.<p> Colin sends Barry Rydell (last seen in Gibson's novel <em>Virtual Light</em>) to the bridge to find a mysterious killer who reveals himself only by his lack of presence on the Net. Barry is also entrusted with a strange package that seems to be the home of Rei Toi, the computer-generated &quot;idol singer&quot; who once tried to &quot;marry&quot; a human rock star (she's also from <em>Idoru</em>). Barry and Rei Toi are eventually joined by Barry's old girlfriend Chevette (from <em>Virtual Light</em>) and a young boy named Silencio who has an unnatural fascination with watches. Together this motley assortment of characters holds the key to stopping billionaire Cody Harwood from doing whatever it is that will make sure he still holds the reigns of power after the nodal point takes place.<p> Although <em>All Tomorrow's Parties</em> includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book that is possibly Gibson's best solo work since <em>Neuromancer</em>. In the past, Gibson has let his brilliant prose overwhelm what were often lackluster (or nonexistent) story lines, but this book has it all: a good story, electric writing, and a group of likable and believable characters who are out to save the world ... kind of. The ending is not quite as supercharged as the rest of the novel and so comes off a bit flat, but overall this is definitely a winner. <em>--Craig E. Engler</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book falls squarely between Gibson's cyberpunk period and his post-cyberpunk contemporary work.  Moving away somewhat from the cyberpunk theme that wars can be fought over snippets information, now instead information is something to be acquired, manipulated, and then distorted into whatever on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23280304">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a Gibson story that has slipped through the cracks of my bookshelf for far too long.  However now that I've read it, I'll put it back in those cracks.  It's a story set in the same universe as &quot;Idoru&quot; and &quot;Virtual Light&quot; (maybe more?), with character crossovers and clever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7249467">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[William Gibson, who predicted the Internet with <em>Neuromancer</em>, takes us into the millennium with a brilliant new novel about the moments in history when futures are born.<br/><br/>&quot;Gibson remains, like Raymond Chandler, an intoxicating stylist.&quot;--<em>The New York Times Book Review</em><br/><br/><em>All Tomorrow's Parties</em> is the perfect novel to publish at the end of 1999. It brings back Colin Laney, one of the most popular characters from <em>Idoru</em>, 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.<br/><br/><em>The Washington Post</em> praised <em>Idoru</em> as &quot;beautifully written, dense with metaphors that open the eyes to the new, dreamlike, intensely imagined, deeply plausible.&quot; 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 &quot;the premier visionary working in SF today&quot; (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>). <em>All Tomorrow's Parties</em> is his next brilliant achievement.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My least-favorite of Gibson's books, barring the unfortunate experiment of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337116.The_Difference_Engine_Spectra_Special_Editions_" title="The Difference Engine (Spectra Special Editions) by William Gibson">The Difference Engine</a>. It has all of the cliches of Gibson's writing -- scattershot multi-character POV, mysterious assassins, vaguely defined future setting, ambiguously menacing rich guy -- but it's never very compelling. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15852505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The greatest moment in this book is when the poor black kid from the mean streets of near-future San Francisco goes into a convenience store and contemplates cloning himself in the 3D fax machine.  &quot;and could he trust those motherfuckers?&quot;  Gibson is great because his old science fiction r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39108917">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll start by admitting I'm not a huge fan of William Gibson.  Like other novels of his that I've slogged through, there are some interesting ideas and some brilliantly imagined scenes, but the plots never really gel for me; I just can't bring myself to care what happens.  Give me Neal Stephenson in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79217759">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge Trilogy, #3)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel <em>Idoru</em>) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see &quot;nodal points&quot; in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.<p> Colin sends Barry Rydell (last seen in Gibson's novel <em>Virtual Light</em>) to the bridge to find a mysterious killer who reveals himself only by his lack of presence on the Net. Barry is also entrusted with a strange package that seems to be the home of Rei Toi, the computer-generated &quot;idol singer&quot; who once tried to &quot;marry&quot; a human rock star (she's also from <em>Idoru</em>). Barry and Rei Toi are eventually joined by Barry's old girlfriend Chevette (from <em>Virtual Light</em>) and a young boy named Silencio who has an unnatural fascination with watches. Together this motley assortment of characters holds the key to stopping billionaire Cody Harwood from doing whatever it is that will make sure he still holds the reigns of power after the nodal point takes place.<p> Although <em>All Tomorrow's Parties</em> includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book that is possibly Gibson's best solo work since <em>Neuromancer</em>. In the past, Gibson has let his brilliant prose overwhelm what were often lackluster (or nonexistent) story lines, but this book has it all: a good story, electric writing, and a group of likable and believable characters who are out to save the world ... kind of. The ending is not quite as supercharged as the rest of the novel and so comes off a bit flat, but overall this is definitely a winner. <em>--Craig E. Engler</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gibson always writes really good prose, but the storylines aren't always the greatest.  This book followed that trend exactly.<br/><br/>Reading the book was very enjoyable, simply because of his descriptive, colorful style.  The characters were interesting, and well drawn.  But the story never reall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26638650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting enough as a citizen of San Francisco.  The scenes of the Bay Bridge are worth the quick read.  Otherwise, lacking somewhat on other fronts.  I don't want to write spoilers, so I'll leave it at that.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable, but mostly because of Konrad-with-a-K, and the world that Gibson has evolved since &quot;Virtual Light.&quot; I had hoped to draw the same sort of inspiration and motivation from this book as I did from the first book of the trilogy, but that did not happen. Not a failing on the author's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79419920">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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