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Cyberpunk novel, but gentler than Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'' series, set in a near-future California, mostly in greater Los Angeles and San Francisco. Plot revolves around the murder of a courier from whom a major character has casually stolen a pair of what she thinks are sunglasses. The stolen article — a kind of high-tech Maltese Falcon — turns out to be "Virtual Light" glasses loaded with highly confidential data about plans to make over San Francisco via nanotechnology (see 129-31 for VL, ch. 15; also see Acknowledgments). Note typically Gibsonian high-tech texture, and the importance of computer hackers at key points in the plot. Rev. Gwyneth Jones, ''Foundation'' #60 (Spring 1994): 104-08. | Cyberpunk novel, but gentler than Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'' series, set in a near-future California, mostly in greater Los Angeles and San Francisco. Plot revolves around the murder of a courier from whom a major character has casually stolen a pair of what she thinks are sunglasses. The stolen article — a kind of high-tech Maltese Falcon — turns out to be "Virtual Light" glasses loaded with highly confidential data about plans to make over San Francisco via nanotechnology (see 129-31 for VL, ch. 15; also see Acknowledgments). Note typically Gibsonian high-tech texture, and the importance of computer hackers at key points in the plot. Rev. Gwyneth Jones, ''Foundation'' #60 (Spring 1994): 104-08. | ||
| + | Dominick Grace offers an important discussion of this novel in "[[From Videodrome to Virtual Light: David Cronenberg and William Gibson|From ''Videodrome'' to ''Virtual Light'': David Cronenberg and William Gibson]]." | ||
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| − | (RDE, 10/11/93; 29/10/94; 26/12/01, | + | </blockquote> |
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| + | (RDE, 10/11/93; 29/10/94; 26/12/01; 12May19, 22Jun22) | ||
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Gibson, William. Virtual Light. New York: Spectra-Bantam, 1993. ISBN 0-553-07499-7.
Cyberpunk novel, but gentler than Gibson's Neuromancer series, set in a near-future California, mostly in greater Los Angeles and San Francisco. Plot revolves around the murder of a courier from whom a major character has casually stolen a pair of what she thinks are sunglasses. The stolen article — a kind of high-tech Maltese Falcon — turns out to be "Virtual Light" glasses loaded with highly confidential data about plans to make over San Francisco via nanotechnology (see 129-31 for VL, ch. 15; also see Acknowledgments). Note typically Gibsonian high-tech texture, and the importance of computer hackers at key points in the plot. Rev. Gwyneth Jones, Foundation #60 (Spring 1994): 104-08.
Dominick Grace offers an important discussion of this novel in "From Videodrome to Virtual Light: David Cronenberg and William Gibson."
(RDE, 10/11/93; 29/10/94; 26/12/01; 12May19, 22Jun22)
