Idoru

Idoru is a science fiction novel by the American-Canadian writer William Gibson, published in 1996. It is the second of his Bridge trilogy.

Colin Laney can see patterns in the enormous record of information people generate simply by living, a talent that makes him useful and slightly frightening, and he is hired to investigate the singer Rez at the moment the marriage is announced. Chia Pet McKenzie is fourteen, a member of a fan club in Seattle, and she has been sent to Tokyo to check on Rez because the club is worried about him. The two of them move through a city that is only half physical, where much of what people see is added by technology and where one district has been rebuilt in software because the original is gone. Gibson writes celebrity, fandom and the machinery behind them as versions of the same thing, and the novel keeps asking what it would mean for a person to be made of nothing but media.

The book follows Virtual Light and shares its near-future Japan, and its virtual performer has been read as a prediction ever since.