by William Gibson · Seal Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780770426149
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«Virtual Light» is the science fiction novel by William Gibson, published by Seal Books in paperback (352 pages, in English).
In 2005, California is divided into NoCal and SoCal. Berry Rydell, ex-cop, and Chevette Washington, courier and pickpocket, flee after stealing high-tech glasses capable of making rich or killing whoever uses them. Both approach the digital heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the most valuable thing.
First installment of the Bridge trilogy. Nominated for the Hugo and the Locus, winner of the Prix Aurora.
For readers of cyberpunk and for those who know William Gibson from Neuromancer.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
