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All Tomorrow's Parties

By William Gibson

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| Paperback | 9780441007554

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"William Gibson's rich protopointillism coins a wireless future where reality is only proxy and proviso. Made all the more beautiful and frightening by its probability, and by characters who somehow tweeze hope from the polymer." --Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files

"One of science fContinue

"William Gibson's rich protopointillism coins a wireless future where reality is only proxy and proviso. Made all the more beautiful and frightening by its probability, and by characters who somehow tweeze hope from the polymer." --Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files

"One of science fiction's greatest literary stylists...Gibson wouldn't be Gibson if he spelled it out, if he eliminated all the ambiguity. His specialty is hanging on to that fractal edge without ever going over the brink." --Wired Magazine

"All Tomorrow's Parties hits on all cylinders." --Seattle Times

"More ultra-cool cyberpunk... This familiar, vigorous, vividly realized scenario is set forth in the author's unique and astonishingly textured prose." --Kirkus Reviews

"The post modern gospel according to Gibson, the patron saint of cyberpunk literature." --Entertainment Weekly

"It's as if Raymond Chandler had written a novel in which Philip Marlowe drops acid, learns Microsoft Word 98 and winds up eating Thai food at a funky San Francisco dive...the most delicious of reads: genre with real literary spunk." --New York Daily News

"All Tomorrow's Parties is immensely engaging, alive on every page and as enjoyable a weekend entertainment as one could want."--The Washington Post Book World

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  • All Tomorrow's Parties

    is cyberpunk prognosticator William Gibson's attempt to pierce the technofetishistic membrane of the new millennium and should be subtitled: It's the End of the World as We Know It and Bill Gibson Wants Us All to Feel Fine. All Tomorrow's Parties con ... (read full critics)

    austinchronicle published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • Forms a loose trilogy (meaning you can read each one separately) together with Virtual Light and Idoru. This is the third.

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