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All Tomorrow's Parties
First published 1999 · 392 pages
A hyper-stylized, neon-drenched collision of street-level grit and world-altering technological convergence.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like standing at the edge of a precipice just before the world changes forever. The atmosphere is thick with a paranoid, anticipatory dread, drenched in the neon and fog of a makeshift, squatter-occupied San Francisco bridge. The narrative weaves together fragmented, isolated lives from subway-dwelling hackers to corporate assassins, pulling them toward an inevitable, gravity-well collision. The prose is signature cool, dense with hyper-specific brand names and poetic observations of urban decay, creating a texture that is both gritty and transcendent. It is a brisk, stylish ride that will delight fans of near-future sci-fi who prefer their apocalypses to be averted by the marginalized, the weird, and the hyper-connected living in the cracks of a corporate dystopia.
- Mood
- neon-lit
- paranoid
- liminal
- anticipatory
- Tone
- cool
- observant
- cynical
- philosophical
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- technological convergence · street-level resilience · corporate hegemony · the nature of reality · historical nodal points
- The writing
- Hyper-stylized and dense with brand-name vernacular, blending poetic urban decay with sharp technological observation.
- The arc
- Begins in fragmented, paranoid isolation and accelerates into a breathless, inevitable collision of destinies.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave atmospheric, near-future cyberpunk where intricate webs of marginalized characters outmaneuver god-like corporate entities.
Content notes
- violence
- drug use
- corporate dystopia
About the book
All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in the Bridge trilogy.
From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert a world disaster. It is due to occur on a bridge in San Francisco, now home to squatters, and is part of a rich man's bid for world domination.
Description from Open Library.
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