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Virtual Light
Signed first edition, 1993
Virtual Light is the first novel in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, set in a fractured near-future California shaped by economic inequality, corporate power, and pervasive surveillance. Following a major earthquake, the social divide between the wealthy and the marginalized has widened, leaving large segments of the population to navigate an unstable and increasingly privatized world.
The story centers on Chevette Washington, a bike messenger who impulsively steals a pair of advanced glasses containing sensitive data, and Berry Rydell, a former police officer now working private security who becomes entangled in the consequences of that theft. Their paths converge on the ruins of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, now occupied by an informal, off-the-grid community operating beyond state control.
Virtual Light presents a world adapting unevenly to disruption. The novel marks a shift in Gibson’s work toward a more grounded portrayal of dystopia, focused on how people live within damaged systems rather than how those systems collapse.
Signed copy. Signed by Gibson on the half-title page.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Hugo Award nominee.1994 (1994). ISBN: 0553074997. #10168.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
The story centers on Chevette Washington, a bike messenger who impulsively steals a pair of advanced glasses containing sensitive data, and Berry Rydell, a former police officer now working private security who becomes entangled in the consequences of that theft. Their paths converge on the ruins of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, now occupied by an informal, off-the-grid community operating beyond state control.
Virtual Light presents a world adapting unevenly to disruption. The novel marks a shift in Gibson’s work toward a more grounded portrayal of dystopia, focused on how people live within damaged systems rather than how those systems collapse.
Signed copy. Signed by Gibson on the half-title page.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Hugo Award nominee.1994 (1994). ISBN: 0553074997. #10168.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
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