Book Club: September

Book Club: September

About the AV Book Club

If you enjoy reading fiction and would like to have an incentive to read more, expand your reading list, and to meet with others to share your thoughts and insights and to hear others' perspectives, consider joining the AV Book Club for your next literary adventure. We read and discuss work by autistic authors as well as non-autistic authors.

This month, we will discuss Idoru by William Gibson.

Tokyo, post-event: After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan – avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way – and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi – she exists only in virtual reality – and this creates complications that Laney, a net runner, is supposed to sort out.

But when Chai, part of Lo/Rez's fan club, turns up unaware that she's carrying illegal nanoware for the Russian Kombinat, Laney's scruples nudge him towards trouble all over again. And this time lawyers'll be the least of his worries...

William Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool.

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