9780140157727 - Virtual Light de Gibson, William (20 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself on a collision course that results in a desperate romance, and a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Virtual Light This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

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Condición: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Condición: Very Good. 1994. Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Virtual Light (1994) by William Gibson Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780140157727 Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books There are futures that arrive in polished silver jumpsuits with obedient robots and reassuring faith in progress. Then there is William Gibson?s future, which tends to turn up wearing stolen shades, carrying dubious data, and looking as though civilisation has been subcontracted to opportunists, corporations, and people living in improvised architecture. Virtual Light is very much that sort of future: grimy, stylish, half-broken, and entirely convincing. By 1994 Gibson had already done more than most writers to define the look and feel of cyberpunk, that wonderfully influential literary mode in which technology gets smarter, cities get stranger, and human beings remain reliably chaotic. Virtual Light takes those familiar Gibson ingredients and relocates them into a near-future California where information is power, infrastructure is unstable, and the social order has developed all the tidy elegance of a dropped toolbox. At the centre of it all is a pair of high-tech glasses, because in Gibson?s world no object is ever merely an object. Everything hums with hidden systems, black-market value, and the possibility that some apparently minor item may in fact be the key to dangerous knowledge. From there the novel unfolds through couriers, ex-cops, drifters, predators, and assorted survivors navigating a world where technology has not solved human problems so much as made them faster, stranger, and more expensive. One of Gibson?s great gifts is that he writes the future as though it has already happened and nobody had time to issue a brochure. His worlds are never neat thought experiments. They are lived-in places full of clutter, side effects, hacked-together adaptations, and people trying to get by inside systems they only partly understand. That texture is what makes his fiction so rich. He does not merely imagine gadgets. He imagines what those gadgets do to streets, jobs, power, crime, desire, and ordinary life. And then there is the style. Gibson writes with that cool, compressed precision that can make a sentence feel like both a bit of street poetry and a warning label. He has always had a rare talent for making the reader feel slightly behind the curve in exactly the right way, as though the world is moving quickly and one had better keep up. This is not cosy science fiction with explanatory handrails. It expects you to step in, look around, and work things out while the city glows ominously in the background. Virtual Light also has the peculiar pleasure of being a past vision of the future. Read now, it offers the double charm of a gripping near-future thriller and a fascinating time capsule of 1990s anxieties about media, networks, surveillance, urban decay, and fractured authority. Gibson was often less interested in prediction than in atmosphere, but he had a troubling habit of being right about the mood of things long before the details arrived. This 1994 Penguin edition comes from exactly the right moment: close enough to the original period to retain the full charge of its era, and now old enough to feel satisfyingly of that age when cyberpunk still seemed like tomorrow rather than the prehistory of our current digital absurdities. It sits very comfortably among the paperbacks of readers who like their fiction sharp-edged, intelligent, and just a little bit dangerous. This copy is in good condition , showing the expected signs of age and reading but remaining sound, presentable, and entirely ready for another trip through Gibson?s fractured future. It has weathered time rather well, which is more than can be said for many of the societies in his novels. An excellent choice for readers of cyberpunk, speculative fiction, near-future thrillers, and anyone who enjoys technology in fiction only when accompanied by social decay, cool menace, and excellent prose. Virtual Light is smart, stylish, unsettling, and full of the sort of future that never really goes away ? it just changes brands and gets better Wi-Fi.

Condición: Very Good. 1994. Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. . . . .

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9780140157727.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good-. Reprint; Tenth Printing. Light reading and cover creases, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block, open corner tear to first page. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 304 pages; Chevette never stole things, or anyway not from other people, and definitely not when she was working. So how's she going to explain the sunglasses? Not ordinary sunglasses, but ones that are very, very special. Ones that are loaded with data that threaten to entirely transform her home city of San Francisco.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Penguin paperback 1994. Good overall condition. Posted from the u/k on the next working day Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condición: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Large Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. A couple of mild reading creases to the spine and some minor shelfwear. A couple of light, diagonal creases t the top right hand corner f the front cover. 296 pages. Size: 7 1/2" x 5". Science Fiction.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback.r. nice clean copy 'Chevette never stole things, or anyway not from other people, and definiately not when she was working.' So how's she going to explain the sunglasses? And not just any sunglasses, but this one, very special, very expensive pair, loaded with the data that threaten to utterly transform her city of San Francisco, State of Norther California, in the year 2005. 296 pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Penguin Edition. Paperback. 'Studded with crackling insights into the relationship between technology, culture and morality, this book doesn't miss its stride for a nanosecond.the most influential SF visionary of the past decade.' (Time Out). 296 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Softcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 200x130x20mm+216g . . Penguin UK. London. 1994. . . . Pp295 Chevette rides as a courier. banging her paper laminate-framed bike through the streets of a future 'Frisco - she lives for it. On an impulse. she's risked everything; stolen a pair of sunglasses from some jerk. No ordinary shades. either: loaded with super-sensitive data. they could decide the destiny of the entire city. Rydell is working for Mr Warbaby. who has been hired to recover the glasses. But Rydell is none too sure that he likes his new employment opportunity; with SFPD Homicide involved. an abandoned bridge populated by freaks and misfits. and some weirdness involving the Republic of Desire and a 'Death Star'. it's turning out to be a very strange and dangerous scene indeed. > William Gibson. author of the classic Neuromancer and creator of cyberpunk. here turns his hyper-acute imagination on the near future - to supercharged. nerve-shredding effect. Fiction: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition.

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paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!