Idoru

Just polished off William Gibson's late 90s novel Idoru. Maybe not his best novel, but not his worst, basically it's just Gibson and his world, in which the reader has to give himself (and odds are most readers are male, because they are in many ways gearhead novels) to an alt view of the near future, usually a little rough and tumble, in which quests for something ethereal and muddy happen. There is blood. There is sex. As ever, multiple seemingly independent plot threads come together, so order is reestablished in the universe at the end. In that sense he is a clear heir of Dickens et al.