Idoru

Author: William Gibson

'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' 
Guardian

Tokyo, post-event:

After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way - and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi - she exists only in virtual reality - and this creates complications that Laney, a net runner, is supposed to sort out. But when Chai, part of Lo/Rez's fan club, turns up unaware that she's carrying illegal nanoware for the Russian Kombinat, Laney's scruples nudge him towards trouble all over again. And this time lawyers'll be the least of his worries . . .

'Sharp, fast, bright . . . a must' 
Arena

'A classic technothriller . . . lean, evocative, tense' 
Wired

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

S an Francisco, the nearish future:

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

S an Francisco, the nearish future:

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'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:

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

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

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

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ISBN: 9780241953532
RRP: $22.95
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By William Gibson

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

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

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Published: 07/09/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241953549
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'An ideas-swarm, coated with a hipster glaze . . . to explore the everyday weirdness of the twenty-first century world' 
Herald

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

Published: 31/08/2011
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RRP: $22.95
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25 May 2012
Australian Society of Authors 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award - winner

All That I Am by Anna Funder has won the Barbara Jefferis Award.

The award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.

Anna beat fellow Miles Franklin contenders Foal's Bread and Cold Light.

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