It is a little hard to believe that it has been almost ten years since I read most of Gibson's work ( Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome and Virtual Light). When reading Idoru a couple of years back, I wondered if I was misremembering how good Gibson's work was. I remember being pretty blown away by Neuromancer, but Idoru really wasn't in the same class.

Good news, then. In All Tomorrow's Parties, Gibson returns to form. The novel maintains a handful of very loosely related plot lines, all of which come together in the final third. The convenience of the ending would be a problem in many books, but the concept of "nodal points" is central to the novel, and it wouldn't be right to end it any other way. Gibson's prose is razor-sharp in many places, and although it took some time for me to get into the storyline, I was hooked after fifty pages.