Reddit reviews Idoru (Bridge Trilogy)
We found 7 Reddit comments about Idoru (Bridge Trilogy). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
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Reddit reviews Idoru (Bridge Trilogy)We found 7 Reddit comments about Idoru (Bridge Trilogy). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
http://www.amazon.com/Idoru-William-Gibson/dp/0425158640
It seems you can't open reddit these days without someone suggesting Accelerando by Charles Stross but it fits your criteria perfectly (and it's a free ebook which is a bonus).
Have you read the rest of William Gibsons Sprawl Trilogy Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive?
Another of Gibsons novels that deals with AI is Idoru which is the second in the Bridge Trilogy (I can't remember if you need to read Virtual Light first).
If you want to read one of Iain Banks books that deals with AI I'd suggest Excession; it does a good job of describing beings whose intelligence is orders of magnitude above ours (and beings whose intelligence is orders of magnitude above theirs).
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. No other books villains have actually elicited strong emotions of hatred from me. And yeah, I know that he went on to write the "sequel", World Without End, but I feel like something got lost in the years in between the two writings.
Beyond that, and not singular works (sorry!), I want to see more books added to William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy of Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tomorrow's Parties. The universe, the characters, the whole feel is just so perfect. More!
Has anyone read Idoru? Great book, the title comes from this concept.
William Gibson predicted this 21 years ago....
But WHY are you getting this shoot? Do people pay for your shoots? Are you a professional model? Is this your 'thing' you spend money on for fun? Do you dress up funny and give someone money to take pictures of you for fun?
You are dressing up as an 'idoru', japanese for "idol", or more specifically 'idoru kashu' (Japanese for ''idol singer''). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_idol
The very first completely virtual idoru was in 1996. Her name is Kyoko Date. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,287972,00.html Leave it to Japan to come up with this kind of idea.
William Gibson actually wrote a book on this idea called "IDORU" actually http://www.amazon.com/Idoru-William-Gibson/dp/0425158640
Do you ever think of the weirdness of a real person dressing up as a completely virtual person who performs and is worshiped by real people?
The whole thing straight through? A couple of weeks ago I read Deadline on the way to Sacramento, then read Idoru on the way back. If you mean most recently finished, I got through the last couple of chapters of Marked for Death on Sunday evening.