Virtual Light

12 hrs. 0 min.

Language Russian

Author William Gibson

Narrator Alexander Voronov

William Gibson is famous for the trilogy “Sprawl” (“Neuromancer,” “Count Zero,” “Mona Lisa Overdrive”), which became a cornerstone of cyberpunk and defined the face of modern literature for decades to come. But very quickly, the genre revolutionary became cramped within any single genre— and after the steampunk epic “The Difference Engine” written together with Bruce Sterling came “Virtual Light,” the first novel of the Bridge Trilogy, set in a kind of alternative present. The thriller plot, futuristic atmosphere, and virtuoso sparseness of style create a volatile yet inevitably compelling cocktail.

So, a powerful earthquake split California into North and South. And the degeneration of the ecosphere split all people into allergy sufferers and the “adapted.” The failed policeman Rydell and the bicycle courier Shevetta-Marie are thrown together by sheer chance and try to survive in a hunt set on them by the owners of extremely important information stored in the “Virtual Light” sunglasses system…

1. Virtual Light 2. Idoru (narrated by Alexander Voronov) 3. All Tomorrow's Parties (narrated by Alexander Voronov)