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Virtual Light
by William Gibson
Gibson is always good. Even on his worst days (which, this may be one of them) he's still got better ideas and characters than other authors at their best. But this wasn't great. The world-building took too long and didn't figure prominently enough in the wrap-up to be worth it. Maybe this is because post-apocalyptic cityscapes are old hat now (...that we live in The Future?), so readers (I) don't need chapters of description. You can do a minimum of sketching of a culture of squatters living on a defunct bridge and I can fill in the rest of the picture.
I think the emphasis on VR put some other readers off, but I enjoyed it. Is this old enough to be retrofuture? In any case, it's very 90s, which I found charmingly nostalgic. It's like going through old yearbooks, if your yearbooks included a "what will things be like in THE FUTURE" section. And if they were full of people you'd actually want to see again.
I think the emphasis on VR put some other readers off, but I enjoyed it. Is this old enough to be retrofuture? In any case, it's very 90s, which I found charmingly nostalgic. It's like going through old yearbooks, if your yearbooks included a "what will things be like in THE FUTURE" section. And if they were full of people you'd actually want to see again.