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Virtual Light

2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

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William Gibson

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William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.

While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology.


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William Gibson. (2007, October 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, October 19, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...

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June 5, 2009
Lumière virtuelle se déroule dans quelques années. Les pays se sont scindés en petits états (la Californie par exemple est coupée en SoCal et NoCal, Californie du Sud et Californie du Nord). Les grands tremblements attendus ont eu lieu. Le little grande a amoché la Californie, Godzilla a ravagé Tokyo. Dans ce monde, on suit Rydell, ex-flic viré pour avoir agi sans retenue dans une prise d'otage, Chevette coursière en vélo et Yamazaki, étudiant en sociologie à l'université d'Osaka qui étudie la vie de certains habitants de San Francisco.

Il y a des morceaux intéressants, par exemple, le mot thomasson et son explication. Mais globalement, ça ne marche pas. L'histoire a par moment l'air de tourner à un immense complot, mais les raisons sont faibles. La construction qui fait se succéder les chapitres suivant tour à tour un des héros devrait renforcer l'impression d'une histoire qui les dépasse et qui englobe tout, mais a plutôt tendance à couper le roman et à le ramener à une suite de tranches plus ou moins intéressantes mais qui ne se rejoignent que géographiquement, pas suivant une dynamique de l'histoire.
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March 3, 2016
Beaucoup de choses sont évoquées, peu sont vraiment développées. Une galerie de personnages charismatiques et tous plus paumés les uns que les autres. Je suis perplexe...
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