Idoru
- 307
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Idoru” is an inventive cyberpunk novel about fame and artificial life: a rock star wants to marry a woman who exists only as software. William Gibson is most convincing when he imagines what it is like to be present in a virtual world, to meet and act there, and his coinages stick in the mind. It is the second volume of the “Bridge” trilogy, and its central idea has not lost its interest.
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About the book
Idoru is a 1996 science fiction novel by William Gibson, published in the United States by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is the second novel in Gibson's Bridge trilogy, following Virtual Light and preceding All Tomorrow's Parties.
Reading order · Bridge trilogy
Full order & progress →- Virtual LightStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - IdoruThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - All Tomorrow's Parties
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 197 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% 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 | 7.7 | 34 | 17% |
| Google Books | 7.0 | 5 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 158 | 80% |
Frequently asked
How long is Idoru?
It has 307 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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