Idoru

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Idoru is a 1996 science fiction novel by William Gibson, published in the United States by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is the second novel in Gibson's Bridge trilogy, following Virtual Light and preceding All Tomorrow's Parties. Set mainly in a near-future Tokyo rebuilt after a major earthquake, Idoru follows two converging plotlines. Colin Laney, a former data analyst with an unusual ability to detect significant patterns in information, is hired to investigate Rez, one half of the rock duo Lo/Rez, after Rez announces his intention to marry Rei Toei, a virtual Japanese celebrity. Chia Pet McKenzie, a teenage fan from Seattle, travels to Tokyo to learn whether the rumor is true and becomes caught in a scheme involving illegal nanotechnology. Critical discussion of the novel has focused on its treatment of virtual celebrity, Japanese media culture, embodiment, and the relation between physical and digital spaces. Rei Toei has been read as both a media construct and a figure through which the...

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