"The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we're entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame."--The Washington Post Book World

21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature...

Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the...

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece--a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...

Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a...

Based on the remarkable true story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, this inspiring and unforgettable play has moved countless readers and become an American classic.

Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution because her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Despite the Kellers' resistance and the belief that Helen "is like a little...

The final volume of the Neuromancer trilogy set in a near-future world, which once again takes the reader into a world of high-tech computers and cybernetics.

Drama / 7m, 7f / Unit setImmortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie's success...

Chevette has stolen a pair of very unusual glasses from a jerk. Set in a future San Francisco, 'Virtual Light' explores the frontiers of technology, culture and morality.

Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. When his friend Lesley, says there's interesting work in California, Rydell goes to find out. But he doesn't realise his former girlfriend is involved as a Taoist assassin.

'Idoru' is a novel from the author of 'Neuromancer' and 'Count Zero'. Rei Toei is the beautiful, mysterious virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez, a rock star, has said he will marry her. But how can he, if she doesn't exist?

This novel is set in London, where Cayce Pollard finds herself on a quest for a shadowy auteur, responsible for some mysterious, if fragmentary, film footage.

Tito is from Cuba, but he's been trained by the Russians and he's now doing delicate jobs in New York involving information transfer. Milgrim is a junkie, surviving on little bubble-packs of pills, but like Tito he speaks Russian and it seems that he hasn't always lived on the streets.