virtual light (1993)

  2005. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger in San Francisco who impulsively snatches a pair of sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich - or get you killed. ¶

Virtual Light, Gibson's fifth novel, is the beginning of Gibson's revised vision of the future. Gibson starts a new trilogy in a more tame and more probable future. Although very keen on the newest achievements of electronic and information technology, this book is more like a 'post-cyberpunk' than a conventional cyberpunk novel. ¶

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Cover from Penguin
New York, 1994 ¶
Copyright © William Gibson 1993 ¶