By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Series: Bridge Trilogy, Book 3
Idoru
Narrated by: John McLain
Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful - to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo,Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo,Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru - the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo.
The narrator made me turn this off in 10 seconds
By Rob on 12-02-18
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Dennis Holland, Kevin Pariseau, and others
William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.
Hypnotic dreams of a gleaming, gritty future
By Ryan on 03-15-14
Mona Lisa Overdrive
The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.
Narrator is Fantastic
By Pantless on 01-15-10
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
Only gets better with age
By Mika LaVaque-Manty on 12-14-18
Zero History
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. Milgrim is even more thoroughly owned by Bigend. He's worth owning for his useful gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting. baked into bone, entirely experimental, to show for it. Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. Garreth isn't owned by Bigend at all.
Gibson's Amazing Zero History
By Joshua Kim on 06-10-12
Spook Country
Bobby Chombo is a "producer" and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry, an investigative journalist, has been told to find him.
The Future is Marketing
By Qbook on 05-23-08
A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-and the biochip he's perfected-out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties-some of whom aren't remotely human.
From Zero to Hero
By Jerry on 07-12-11
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice", the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don't yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it's best they don't.
reads like a treatment for a bad movie
By Ronke on 02-10-20
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do - a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.
Gibson is great, narrator is unbelievably bad.
By CLRH2O on 05-23-17
The Difference Engine
By: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Narrated by: Simon Vance
The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
Starts strong, falls off
By Delano on 04-22-13
By: William Gibson, and others
Rainbows End
By: Vernor Vinge
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Set a few decades from now, Rainbows End is an epic adventure that encapsulates in a single extended family the challenges of the technological advances of the first quarter of the 21st century. The information revolution of the past 30 years blossoms into a web of conspiracies that could destroy Western civilization. At the center of the action is Robert Gu, a former Alzheimer's victim who has regained his mental and physical health through radical new therapies, and his family.
Great Discovery
By Steve on 03-06-08
New and Collected Stories
By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Scott Aiello, Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive tales of boundless imagination. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and 15 additional stories collected here for the first time. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note.
Short stories in the vein of wool
By DIanne on 06-26-19
Assignment in Eternity
By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels: Gulf, in which the greatest super-spy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us. And Lost Legacy, in which it is proved that we are all members of that league - or would be, if we but had eyes to see.
You'll like it because you can think...
By Trip Williams on 06-05-12
A Comedy of Justice
Narrated by: Richard Powers
After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist Minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same. Now called Alec Graham, he was in the middle of an affair with his stewardess, Margrethe, and natural disasters kept following them. First, there was an impossible iceberg that wrecked the ship in the tropics; then, after being rescued by a Royal Mexican plane, they were hit by a double earthquake. To Alex, the signs were clear that Armageddon and the Day of Judgment were near.
Finally! Someone who can read a Heinlein story!
By Thomas on 02-25-13
Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
Narrated by: George Guidall
Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream.
Fascinating, Fast Paced, & one hell of a Mind*^ck
By amblingtumble on 04-17-13
In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Susan Denaker, Margaret Atwood
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood's account of her rela­tionship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretch­ing from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she explored the Victorian ancestors of the form, and continuing with her work as a writer and reviewer.
By MrMonterrubio on 01-09-20
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times best seller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead.
Perhaps it rates in x's and not stars.
By Y. Reed on 02-06-15
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Luke Daniels, Peter Berkrot, and others
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than 100 short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects 10 of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists.
Liked most of the stories
By F. Delaney on 08-24-18
Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend, Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly runs the world, and the apocalyptic technological transformation of, well, everything.
William Gibson's new novel, set in the soon-to-be-fact world of Virtual Light and Idoru, completes a stunning, brilliantly imagined trilogy about the post-Net world.
©1999 William Gibson (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
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What listeners say about All Tomorrow's Parties
Worth several listenings.
Very densely and artfully written. I listened to it multiple times, sometimes as a cure for insomnia. I would not recommend it for commutes as it is too low-key for that. I loved the conception of living on Golden Gate Bridge, but never would have hung in there, due to nebulous plotting, if it had not been for the relaxing and yet entertaining reading of Jonathan Davis. His reading of Rydell was particularly amusing.
Vicki In Crete
Best production, great listening experience
Thank you for the great narration, Jonathan Davis. I can't image how you accomplished such a great listen; is very enjoyable.
I ended up enjoying this book the most of the trilogy. I've read "All Tomorrow's Parties" a couple of times, but listening to this version is much better.
William Gibson has a great talent for describing the past, present and future (all at the same time) with a great tongue in cheek style.
Very different, kinda cool :)
Poetic thoughts and images, but not the bardic/literary kind ....more artistic somehow. This author DEFinitely has his own style. Very dense, very thick weavings. Great characters. Very very interesting. The story is not your normal, straightforward sort and also not "typical" sci/fi. Know this first. BIGtime. It took me a couple (afterwards) to GET IT and then I did. Soo cool. Not your normal read. I did a LOT of re-winding (so to speak) throughout. But, I DEFinitely enjoyed the ride :)
top notch narrative performance
This is more than just a reading, it seems more like a dramatization, with amazing vocal performance by Jonathan Davis. I'll be seeking out other books with his voice.
I had read the previous book(s) in the series, so I was familiar with the general milieu. If I hadn't, then the story would have been even harder to follow, but I just relaxed and enjoyed the atmosphere.
Technology will save us
Good character study, but I don't think the author's vision of hope is viable because the root cause problem (human culture) was not addressed.
Douglas G.
Lucid prescience
Colin Laney working from inside the inside of the inside of a Tokyo subway station finds the red thread that leads to our future. Pulling it ever so gently he contrives to manipulate the manipulator and find a way away from "rich powerful corrupt men" seducing us into a culturally homogonized nightmare.
Michael Garber
DIFFICULT NOT TO FINISH ONCE BEGUN, 1ST RATE!
Loved it, not as dazzling as Neuromancer, but much more finely constructed. A tale of a perfectly believable American favela, intricate and independent.
2021 and still relevant.
Gibson created an amazing and fascinating world not to different from ours. this book can be read without reading the others in the series aces would still be great. I have listened to this audio presentation at least three times and could again happily 😊
Jeff SKopin
This story has legs!
The technology predicted and the state of society imagined — over 20 years ago — is stunningly believable and accurate.
Luiz Magalhaes
Gripping story
I had read the previous stories by WG, and this was a memorable experience. I liked the narrator's different voices to each character, and it made my commute something to look forward to, instead of a drudge.