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Idoru
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- 51 feature instances
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Idoru is a Cyberpunk/Post-Cyberpunk Speculative Fiction story written by William Gibson. Set in Tokyo, it is the second book of the Bridge Trilogy.Rez of the Lo/Rez band has announced he is going to marry Rei Toei, an Idoru/a digital celebrity. Chia visits Tokyo to find out the truth. Laney, an ex-analyst, is hired to find out what’s wrong with Rez. However, the Russian Kombinat is not letting these two people know what is really going on behind the scenes.In 2006, an anime film version was announced, but to date, nothing has come of it. | |
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Dropped link to SpeculativeFiction: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TheMafiya: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to TheVerse: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Fangirl | |
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Fan Girl: Chia, Mitsuko, Hiromi and tons of other unnamed girls. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: (Semi) In-universe. The avatar for Chia's Venice program is an effeminate pop-star looking man with an impressive coat. It is mentioned that in order to avoid litigation, they had to change one of his eyes (but why just one, Chia wonders?) | |
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Artistic License – Linguistics | |
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Artistic License – Linguistics: The Japanese loanword for "idol" should technically be romanized as aidoru, not idoru. This mostly an odd case of Recursive Translation between writing systems changing the "proper" spelling of a word, however: Depending on one's accent, the "i" in both "idol" and "idoru" would be pronounced "ai" already. note Indeed in at least one extant audiobook recording the narrator pronounces the book's title as "aidoru." , hence the loanword's initial vowel in Japanese. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Tokyo’s Western World. | |
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Unusual Pop Culture Name | |
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Unusual Pop Culture Name: Chia Pet McKenzie was named after the terracotta figurines. Her mother was an immigrant, did not speak English, did not understand the commercial and just liked the sound of "Chia Pet", so it was not intentional. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: Used intentionally, found in descriptions of Japanese advertisements, clothing, drinks, and instruction labels. | |
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Japan Takes Over the World | |
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Japan Takes Over the World: Not nearly as blatant as in the Sprawl Trilogy, but Japan has definitely fared much better than the U.S. or Russia since the global economic crash. | |
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Do Androids Dream? | |
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Do Androids Dream?: Rei Toei. In fact, her dreams are literally the music videos. | |
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Recursive Reality | |
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Recursive Reality: The Walled City is basically Tokyo itself, managed in the style of Second Life. | |
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Beige Prose | |
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Beige Prose: Like other William Gibson novels, played straight. Sentence fragments. Everywhere. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
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Scenery Gorn: When it isn't Scenery Porn. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: It perfectly describes Tokyo, especially to anyone who has visited or lived there. | |
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Robotic Spouse | |
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Robotic Spouse: The premise. | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: Chia believes Hiromi is one. She's proven right in the end. | |
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Flashback | |
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Flashback: Mostly in Laney’s chapters. He often remembers his old work while analyzing the nodal points. | |
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Hikikomori | |
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Hikikomori: Masahiko. | |
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Cyberspace | |
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Cyberspace: Chia’s chapters with her Sandbender computer loves this trope. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Colin Laney to William Gibson, in a way. Laney's talent for identifying nodal points was meant to be a metaphor for Gibson's own much noted knack for identifing bits of the future in present-day. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Techno Babble: Gibson doesn't spell out exactly, how things work in any of his novels. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Chia Pets are toys. The Walled City, the hacker community, is named after the Kowloon Walled City. Slitscan is an animation that’s created by image by image. Zona Rosa is a neighbourhood in Mexico City. In a brilliant combination of Genius Bonus and Foreshadowing, the Zona Rosa is a very expensive and trendy area... Rei Toei’s name and personality are inspired by the Toei company which includes Toei Animation. | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain | |
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Not Disabled In VR | |
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Not Disabled In VR: Zona Rose, the supposed leader of a Chilanga girl gang, is ultimately revealed to be the severely disabled daughter of a lawyer. | |
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Idol Singer | |
Idoru / int_78c61d79 | comment |
Idol Singer: Lo/Rez and Rei Toei. | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Blackwell to Kathy Torrance. | |
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City Noir | |
Idoru / int_86e12b9a | comment |
City Noir: Tokyo | |
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Industrial Ghetto | |
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Industrial Ghetto: Tokyo’s Western World. It is basically Tokyo’s old remains left untouched after the earthquake. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Rei Toei | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: Kathy Torrance hates Laney a lot. | |
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Matrix Raining Code | |
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Matrix Raining Code: Laney sometimes sees this while he is analyzing nodal points. So does Chia when she is using her sandbender program. | |
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Hacker Collective | |
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Hacker Collective: Masahiko belongs to a hacker collective known as Walled City. | |
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Projected Man | |
Idoru / int_ac18c727 | comment |
Projected Man: Rei Toei, the Idoru. | |
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Genius Bonus | |
Idoru / int_b3d1b7e3 | comment |
Zona Rosa is a neighbourhood in Mexico City. In a brilliant combination of Genius Bonus and Foreshadowing, the Zona Rosa is a very expensive and trendy area... | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Zona Rosa really hates it when anyone insults her toughness. | |
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Hologram | |
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Hologram: Rei Toei, the idoru herself. | |
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Translator Microbes | |
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Translator Microbes: Chia uses translator software that lets her converse in real time with Mitsuko, who speaks little English. Some of the problems of using software are noted: | |
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Virtual Celebrity | |
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Virtual Celebrity | |
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Otaku | |
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Otaku: Masahiko is a computer otaku. | |
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Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe | |
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Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe | |
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Corporate Samurai | |
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Corporate Samurai: Blackwell is a typical Gibson example of such and is introduced in such a way that you think he'll be a bad guy, but turns out to be a rare positive example and one of the most reliably trustworthy characters in the book. | |
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I Am Legion | |
Idoru / int_d5daa5ca | comment |
I Am Legion: Rei Toei is not just one, but many idorus. | |
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Weapon for Intimidation | |
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Weapon for Intimidation: Maryalice uses her handgun shaped cigarette lighter for this, near the end of the book. The illusion collapses when she pulls the trigger. | |
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Playful Hacker | |
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Playful Hacker: Zona Rosa. In the end, she saves everyone, by hacking the central fan community, sacrificing her identity, and webspace in the process, announcing that Rez died at the love hotel. The fans immediately converge there for a mass vigil, and the crowds really slow down the baddies. | |
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Jerkass | |
Idoru / int_eb8e4fa8 | comment |
Jerkass: Hiromi Ogawa. | |
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Le Film Artistique | |
Idoru / int_ef2fcbe1 | comment |
Le Film Artistique: The first of the two documentaries for Lo/Rez. Lampshaded when Laney thought it was hard to follow at times. However, the documentary shows the band being disconnected from the world through stress and travel, a major reason why Rez is marrying the idoru, who is always connected to the world by virtue of only existing in cyberspace. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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Product Placement | |
Idoru / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: Pocari Sweat of all things, though obscure references like this, are one of Gibson's trademarks. | |
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Everything Is Online | |
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Everything Is Online: Laney uses information online, including music likes, to track down and analyze specific aspects of the person he’s tracking. | |
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RidiculouslyHumanRobot | |
Idoru / int_f6db5b1e | comment |
Ridiculously Human Robot: Rei Toei. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk/Post Cyber Punk: Can be classified as one or the other, depending on who you ask. | |
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Robosexual | |
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Robosexual: The premise, again. | |
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Life Imitates Art / int_58c7b20a | |
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Not Disabled In VR / int_58c7b20a |
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