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![]() | All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) (The third book in the Bridge series) A novel by William Gibson |
Rydell is on his way back to San Francisco. A stint as a security man in a Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is.William Gibson's seventh glossy, neon-lit novel is a stylishly complex sequel to his previous two, Virtual Light and Idoru. From Virtual Light there's the potent image of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge transformed into a vertically stacked shanty-town with its own bohemian autonomy, outside the law. Idoru provides the magical Japanese media idol ("idoru") Rei Toei, a gorgeous lady existing only in software--as yet. Gibson links these worlds with his usual glowing, plausible vision of deadly streetwise realities intersecting with on-line data flow. One man attuned to the net can sense from his cardboard-box home in Tokyo that major changes loom. A Zen assassin stalks San Francisco and the unlucky ex-cop hero from Virtual Light must assemble some very strange equipment. Further objects of desire include lovingly described knives, guns and even antique mechanical watches, as collected by Gibson himself (who pursues them through online auctions)--the ability to trace watches across the net is crucial to tracking the arch-villain. All the world's clocks are ticking in a countdown to transformation and to chrome-polished scenes of extreme violence as zero-hour nears. Multiple storylines meet and dovetail with deft, witty understatement and, in one case, a charming joke. Vintage Gibson, with enough artful backfill that you needn't read the prequels--but they're great fun too. --David Langford
Used availability for William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties
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Hardback Editions
November 2003 : Hardback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0141886846 / 9780141886848 (UK edition) Publisher: E-Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
November 2003 : Hardback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0141886862 / 9780141886862 (UK edition) Publisher: E-Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
November 2003 : Hardback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0141886854 / 9780141886855 (UK edition) Publisher: E-Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
October 1999 : Hardback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0399145796 / 9780399145797 (USA edition) Publisher: Putnam Adult Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
July 1999 : Hardback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0670875570 / 9780670875573 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon |
Paperback Editions
July 2011 : Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0241953510 / 9780241953518 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
July 2008 : Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0141038136 / 9780141038131 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
February 2003 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0425190447 / 9780425190449 (USA edition) Publisher: Berkley Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
August 2000 : Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0441007554 / 9780441007554 (USA edition) Publisher: Ace Trade Availability: Amazon CA Amazon Amazon UK |
October 2000 : Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0140266135 / 9780140266139 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
October 2000 : Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0140292802 / 9780140292800 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
October 1999 : Paperback
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 0670875589 / 9780670875580 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
Audio Editions
November 2011 : Audio CD
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 1455856975 / 9781455856978 Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
November 2011 : Audio CD
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 1455857912 / 9781455857913 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
November 2011 : MP3 CD
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 1455858854 / 9781455858859 Publisher: Brilliance Corporation Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
November 2011 : MP3 CD
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: 1455859796 / 9781455859795 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
February 2003 : Kindle edition
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: B000O76ONG Publisher: Berkley Availability: Amazon |
October 2000 : Kindle edition
| Title: All Tomorrow's Parties Author(s):: William Gibson ISBN: B002RI9284 Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon UK |
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