by William Gibson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726626053
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«Idoru» is the science fiction novel by William Gibson, published by Gradiva in paperback (214 pages, in Portuguese).
In a 21st-century Tokyo, after the millennium earthquake, Colin Laney, a man capable of detecting hidden patterns in information, is looking for work. Teenager Chia McKenzie travels to Japan to find out whether the singer Rez, her idol, is in danger. The announcement that Rez will marry Rei Toei, a virtual star called an idoru, unleashes interests and threats that affect everyone.
Translation into Portuguese by João Francisco Carvalhais; first edition published by Gradiva in Lisbon (1998).
It will interest science fiction readers and followers of William Gibson for its plot about virtual celebrities and digital culture.
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.
