All Tomorrow's Parties

All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like its predecessors, All Tomorrow's Parties is a speculative fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, postcyberpunk future. The novel borrows its title from that of a song by Velvet Underground. It is written in the third-person plural and deals with Gibsonian themes of emergent technology. The novel's prismatic, fractured style renders its plot complex. It featu... more

All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like its predecessors, All Tomorrow's Parties is a speculative fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, postcyberpunk future. The novel borrows its title from that of a song by Velvet Underground. It is written in the third-person plural and deals with Gibsonian themes of emergent technology. The novel's prismatic, fractured style renders its plot complex. It features three separate but overlapping stories, with the continual appearance of pivotal characters as narrative anchor points. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge, the overarching setting of the trilogy, functions both as a narrative link between the three lines of plot and the physical location of their ultimate convergence and resolution. The first story features former rent-a-cop Berry Rydell, the protagonist of Virtual Light. Rydell quits a temporary job as a security guard at the Lucky Dragon convenience store to run errands for atrophied... less