All Tomorrow's Parties
by William Gibson · first published 1999
33% recommend67% neutral
All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in the Bridge trilogy. From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert a world disaster. It is due to occur on a bridge in San Francisco, now home to squatters, and is part of a rich man's bid for world domination.
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…Machine (still holds up very well, and seems strangely eerie and prescient in places)... (H. G. Wells) - Dune (Frank Herbert) - The Hobbit (and LotR) (Tolkien) - Neuromancer (William Gibson) - Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties (I picked up Idoru first, so I haven't yet read Virtual Light) (also Gibson) - The Difference Engine (Gibson, Sterling) - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) - Cryptonomicon (" ") - Circuit of Heaven, End…
on “Ask YC: favorite books” ↗…and William Gibson Sprawl Trilogy recommendations. Gibson's The Peripheral, as well as Pattern Recognition, Zero History, and Spook Country all apply, as well. Same for his Idoru, Virtual Light, and All Tomorrow's Parties. Finally, Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine - the first and, so far, best steampunk novel - also qualifies, given the storyline.
on “Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?” ↗The Bridge Trilogy by William Gibson (technically cyberpunk but close enough). Virtual light and all tomorrow’s parties in particular.
on “Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?” ↗From Gibson's 'All Tomorrow's Parties': Looking past the display, she could see a lot of old hardware side by side on shelves, most of it in that grubby beige plastic. Why had people, for the first twenty years of computing, cased everything…
on “The Beige Box Fades to Black (2002)” ↗I've been re-reading William Gibson novels in order, currently on All Tomorrow's Parties. Anyway, when I re-read Idoru, I wondered why we don't really have anything like its proto-cyberspace. With its Walled City, a distributed common virtual world. I can see why the matrix of Neuromancer…
on “Build your own Google Glass” ↗Funny you would ask: I just finished All Tomorrow's Parties about a week ago, as the end of a massive read/re-read of William Gibson. I started with Neuromancer and read the Sprawl Trilogy and the Bridge Trilogy back to back. I'd read everything at least once…
on “The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk” ↗…his ability to conjure a certain kind of dirty, messy future. His action set pieces are often very rewarding and disturbing. Certain elements, like the guy living in the cardboard box in a subway in "All Tomorrow's Parties", I find rather haunting. But he's so often let down by lackluster character development and plotting. Pretty much every single novel follows the same architecture: Fabulously rich, unreliable mystery…
on “Revisting Neuromancer After Three Decades” ↗Wait, 15 books? Burning Chrome Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive The Difference Engine (w/Bruce Sterling) Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History The Peripheral That's 12?
on “How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real” ↗…JavaScript web framework; instead I've felt tired and just waiting for 5 or 6pm to just leave and then come home and avoid computers completely. Maybe we're just feeling like burnt out Colin Laney from All Tomorrow's Parties?
on “Boredom is not a problem to be solved, it's the privilege of a free mind” ↗