Penguin Books Australia

William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And as his stories bled into reality so he became one of the first to report on the real-world consequences of cyberspace's growth and development.

'A stunner . . . a terrifically stylish burst of kick-butt imagination' Entertainment Weekly

S an Francisco, the nearish future:

'Writing at flame intensity, Gibson conjures a world that seems just a breath away from the here and now' 
Salon

The Bridge, San Francisco, after the quake:

'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' 
Guardian

Tokyo, post-event:

'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' 
Arena

'Among our most fascinating novelists . . . unmissable' 
Daily Telegraph

What happens when old spies come out to play one last game?

'An ideas-swarm, coated with a hipster glaze . . . to explore the everyday weirdness of the twenty-first century world' 
Herald

What happens when old spies come out to play one last game?

In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's movements.

Chia, a hardcore fan of Lo/Rez, has come to Tokyo, current location of the band's singer. Rez is on a weird head-trip; he's announced his impending marriage to an Idoru, a digital celebrity, baffling both his management and fans. His security has hired Laney. a disgraced analyst with a talent for reading the future in data-flow, to find answers. But the Russian Kombinat, a big-haired smuggler called...