Japan after a catastrophic earthquake. Nanotechnological skyscrapers. Nightclub based on Franz Kafka. “Youth idol, singer Rez, is going to marry virtual actress Rei Toei”... If the present sometimes seems like a dream, then the future is just a continuation of this dream. It is in this future that the plot of “Idoru” develops, the second, after “Virtual Light”, part of the “Bridge trilogy” by William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk and the cult writer of the turn of the century.