by William Gibson · Minotauro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788445072141
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In 'Virtual Light', William Gibson transports us to a near future where technology and reality intertwine in a disturbing way. The novel, set in a futuristic San Francisco, follows a group of cyclists and explores the scope of information technology. The plot unfolds in a world where the line between the real and the virtual blurs, raising questions about identity, perception, and the impact of technology on society.
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.
