by William Gibson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453863279
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«Virtuelles Licht» is the science fiction novel by William Gibson, published by Heyne in paperback (364 pages, in German).
In the near future, society lives immersed in a global market dominated by genetic engineering and nanotechnology, while the boundary between the real and the virtual becomes increasingly blurred. Without anyone noticing, civilization approaches a tipping point and something completely new is about to begin.
First installment of William Gibson's Bridge series, originally published as «Virtual Light» in 1993. Nominated for the Hugo and Locus awards, winner of the Prix Aurora.
Recommended for readers of cyberpunk and technological dystopias, with the futuristic atmosphere and social reflection typical of Gibson.
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.
