Idoru

ISBN: 97803991413010
ISBN: 9780425190456 (pbk)
ISBN: 0399141308
ISBN: 0425190455 (pbk)
Physical Description: print 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1996.

Gibson, William 1948- (Author).

Summary: Rei toei, the "idoru" (the Japanese pronunciation of "idol"), is a Tokyo pop star who exists only as a software agent -- until now. Chia McKenzie, fourteen-year-old Seattle fan of the rock group Lo/Rez, has heard a rumor that lead singer/philosopher Rez plans to marry the idoru and her online buddies arrange to send her to Tokyo on a rescue mission. The other branch of the converging plot features Colin Laney, whose talent is perceiving and interpreting the patterns people create in the datastream, and who is hired by Rez's security chief to investigate the same rumor. This not-quite-sequel is set in the same future as _Virtual Light,_ with Yamazaki as a major supporting character and Rydel in the background, but the focus is on Laney's attempts to deal with an extremely strange world and on Chia's coping with the real Japan and the virtual Walled City. -- Review from amazon.ca website.