ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES

Laney, living on blue cough medicine in a cardboard city, is scanning for nodality, for the future. A future that depends on Rei Toei, the idoru - beautiful girl, virtual icon, post-human being. Rydell - ex-cop, ex-security for Lucky Dragon convenience stores - is working for Laney, sort of, but he´s looking for a future too, and for Chevette, who was once his girl (and is now on the run). And now Rydell´s back in San Francisco, back on the Bridge, where it all began, and where it looks like it might all end, possibly with a number of big bangs. But endings are also beginnings ...