So these people, they found a way to unravel something. people who founded Hak Nam were angry, because the net had been very free, you could do what you wanted, but then the governments and the companies, they had different ideas of what you could, what you couldn't do. Their efforts began as a shared "killfile," a device which blocks all incoming messages. These unsatisfied Net denizens have created a virtual Walled City of Kowloon of their own and called it Hak Nam in the image of the original.
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With his concept of the Walled City, a multiuser domain closed to all but its members, Gibson casts the Internet as a new world, one of frontiers full of evangelists and criminals, conformers and dissenters. This makes his fiction disturbing and, consequently, compelling. While other writers harp on one or two theories and rehash old themes, Gibson churns out new ideas and takes current scientific hopes one step beyond. GIBSON ASSEMBLES future worlds with a rare extravagance. Adeptly crafted and equally varied, his inquisitive angles lend depth to the book. In a converging narrative thread, teenager Chia Pet McKenzie, a member of a Lo/Rez fan club in Seattle, comes to Japan looking for her own answers about Rez, only to fall victim to a nanotechnology-smuggling operation for the Russian underground.Īlthough Idoru falters with too-convenient happenstances and moves at a more sedate pace than Virtual Light, it is rich with Gibson's techno-visions, into which he weaves batteries of perspectives and criticisms, ranging from computer recycling, censorship of the Internet, privacy on the Net, Japan's weakness for idols and sundry other issues. This decision jeopardizes the financial empire of Lo/Rez and its managers. Rez has apparently announced his intention to marry "idoru" (idol) Rei Toei, an information-generated personality-construct of a beautiful woman that flickers between reality and virtuality with the ease of a ghost. His new employer wants him to study Rez, singer for the band Lo/Rez, a Japanese superstar rock duo. Laney goes to Japan to interview for a job as data analyst. When one of his subjects turns up dead, Laney finds himself without a job and targeted as a scapegoat by Slitscan, his former employer. That is, he can predict the outcome of an event or the behavior of a subject. Net searcher Colin Laney is a man who sees things in data like he "sees things in clouds, except the things he sees are really there." He possesses a talent for discerning crucial information-"nodal points"-from random amalgamations of data on a single person. Spinning off from Gibson's last bestseller, Virtual Light, the story takes place in a Tokyo rebuilt by nanotechnology after a massive millennial earthquake. In Idoru, William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk, once again takes this question into his world, into his "virtuality." The new novel marks Gibson's return to the unique techno-decadent 21st century of his previous works. WHAT IS LIFE-real or virtual-but the angle of vision? Perhaps we are only what we know, what our experience encompasses. William Gibson returns to the 21st century in 'Idoru'
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