Now that I finished <A target="_blank" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805210342/fantasistnet">Zohar</…;, I've started <A target="_blank" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399145796/fantasistnet">All Tomorrow's Parties</A>, by William Gibson.
This is a sequel, of sorts, to <A target="_blank" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399141308/fantasistnet">Idoru</…;. Idoru is about just that, a Japanese pop idol (an "idoru"), who is a completely generated character. She simply doesn't exist, except for being bits and bytes in RAM. The story is about finding this out, and what's behind it, and a lot more complicated stuff than that. It is, of course, classic Gibson.
<A target="_blank" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399145796/fantasistnet">All Tomorrow's Parties</A> is what happens after all that. My wife told me that it is an engrossing and quick read. So far, she's right. I fear it will all be over before it registers that I've started. Gibson is like that. And, it's the standard which I use to judge all other literature.
We also have his latest, <A target="_blank" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399149864/fantasistnet">Pattern Recognition</A>, which looks like it's a fun one, too. I'll post something when I start that one. Though, it might be awhile. I have a lot of other stuff to read before I get caught up to that!
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