Virtual Light (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: William Gibson
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: 2005
- Setting: Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Police, Future, Twenty-first century, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Theft, San Francisco, Television or television broadcasting, Japanese Americans, Computers, Corporations, Bicycles or bicycling
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA
The Plot
Although set in the same technologically stratified world as William Gibson’s earlier novels, Virtual Light presents a much more naturalistic and less hard-edged vision. The story concerns the theft and eventual recovery of a pair of Virtual Light glasses capable of transmitting images directly to the optic nerve. Their ability, though, is not nearly as important as the information the glasses contain: the technical details of a global corporation’s plan to rebuild San Francisco. These two elements of technological intricacy and global corporate domination...
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