An edition of Idoru (1996)

Idoru

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An edition of Idoru (1996)

Idoru

  • 3.8 (29 ratings) ·
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Twenty-first-century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere, blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea creature.

Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is not, he is careful to point out, a voyeur. He is an intuitive fisher of patterns of information, the "signature" a particular individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the interesting (read: dangerous) bits. Which makes him very useful - to certain people.

Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She's fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble, in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. The Idoru. And Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that brought Chia to Tokyo. But the things that bother Rez are not the things that bother most people.

Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently new is about to happen? It's possible the Idoru is as real as she wants or needs to be - or as real as Rez desires. When Colin Laney looks into her dark eyes, trying hard to think of her as no more than a hologram, he sees things he's never seen before. He sees how she might break a man's heart.

Publish Date
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Pages
292

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Idoru
Idoru
November 2002, Booket
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Idoru
Idoru
1997, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Idoru
Idoru
September 1, 1997, Berkley
in English
Cover of: Idoru
Idoru
1996, G.P. Putnam's Sons
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.I2264 I36 1996, PS3557.I2264I36 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
292 p. ;
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL980810M
Internet Archive
idoru00gibs
ISBN 10
0399141308
LCCN
96018363
OCLC/WorldCat
34576883
Library Thing
606
Wikidata
Q125965387
Goodreads
1063556

Work Description

From first page Berkley paperback September 1997:

21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently new is about to happen...

Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the "signature" an individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful -- to certain people.

Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She's fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out.

Rei Toei is the idoru -- the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez had declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo. True or not, the idoru and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger.

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After Slitscan, Laney heard about another job from Rydell, the night security man at the Chateau.
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