Bridge trilogy
The Bridge trilogy ( "Bridge trilogy" ), also called " San Francisco " trilogy is a trilogy by William Gibson.
It is named after the Sprawl or Neuromancer trilogy ( " Neuromancer " - 1984, "Count Zero / biochips " - 1986, "Mona Lisa Overdrive" - 1988) Gibson's second successful trilogy. The individual novels are:
- Virtual Light (1993 ), dt Virtual Light
- Idoru (1996 ), dt Idoru
- All Tomorrow 's Parties (1999), dt Futurematic
The name Bridge trilogy comes from one of the scenes of the novels, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which is taken after a severe earthquake homeless and used as a shanty town.
Action of the Bridge trilogy
The trilogy is generally from the beginnings of cyberspace technology and plays a part on the U.S. West Coast, in California, which has split after an earthquake in the two separate states NoCal and SoCal, on the other hand, in a Tokyo was rebuilt by nanotechnology, after it had also been damaged by an earthquake. The various parts of the bridge trilogy share a basic repertoire of characters: The most important are the driver " Berry" Rydell and Chevette Washington Fahrradkurierin. The computer hacker Colin Laney, who has the mysterious ability to glean patterns from large data fields, is found in All Tomorrow's Parties and in Idoru. Another recurring character is the virtual " Idoru " named Rei Toei. The word Idoru (actually aidoru ) is a Japanese transformation of " Idol".
The trilogy includes in Gibson's books often recurring themes such as combination of technology and living organisms, traumatic changes and the self- perception of the cyborgs. The real San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge still exists as old-fashioned steel construction. But after the traumatic shock of the earthquake that the actual bridge, and the outdated technology, from which it is derived shaken, the rise of new technological systems is emerging. Two examples are nanotech -based tunnel to replace the bridge, as well as the temporary huts grown on the destroyed bridge. This bridge is Cyborg, since she lives out of the remaining elements of the bridge and the people on the bridge out. This duality is also inherent in the figures: Chevettes courier work colleague has bones made of steel and is described in the same breath with his bike. Rei Toei or The Rez entity has a human part ( Rez ) and an artificial ( Rei). The blind drummer ocular prostheses.
Blackwells ax is repeatedly described as an extension of his body. The unnamed killer is inseparable from his blade. Colin Laney's brain was again an experimental wired by chemical that enables its ability to recognize pattern data.
The entire story arc of the trilogy sets Gibsons theory of the structure of the world represents a traumatic event destabilized, splits or even completely destroyed the social and technical order. Uncontrolled technology ( the Bridge community was neither allowed nor planned) is growing rapidly and leads to large, radical changes. The Involved have no choice but to insert this new order in their self-perception - and thus to be Cyborg ( either literally or figuratively ). Up to the point where the line between man and machine - and how the effect of these changes expands, the speed with which these self- conception changed grows.
Filming
As of 2006, it was rumored that it was an anime adaptation of Idoru in the early development phase.
Criticism
"Like all books Gibson's Idoru is an incomplete story, a fragment from the near future. Not only can the author enough questions for more books open, the journey Laney and Chia in the resurgent standing heart of Japan remains at best piecemeal. We learn very little about Rez and Rei Toei not really more about. You are featureless as the pictures in the clouds, where Laney traces how the objects of Japanese popular culture, not to make them really palpable, because to entertainment culture, the author is ... "