All Tomorrow's Parties
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
William Gibson’s “Bridge” trilogy reaches its closing act in “All Tomorrow’s Parties”, which is best read as exactly that. It moves between Tokyo and the San Francisco Bay Area of a near future and reunites Rydell, Chevette and Laney, whose gift for reading patterns in data tells him a turning point in history is near. A public-relations magnate means to exploit that moment, and everything converges on the settlement on the Bay Bridge. Gibson keeps this cyberpunk finale compact, at 288 pages.
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About the book
All Tomorrow's Parties is a 1999 novel by William Gibson and the third and final novel in the Bridge Trilogy. Set in a near-future San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo, the novel brings together several continuing characters from the earlier Bridge books, including Berry Rydell, Chevette Washington, and Colin Laney. Its plot centers on Laney's attempt to prevent the public-relations magnate Cody Harwood from exploiting an approaching "nodal point" of historical change focused on the settlement built on the Bay Bridge.
Reading order · Bridge trilogy
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7.77.7 / 10 - Idoru
7.77.7 / 10 - All Tomorrow's PartiesThis book
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 150 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 51% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 23 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 127 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is All Tomorrow's Parties?
It has 288 pages — shorter than 81% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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