Virtual'nyi svet - Gibson U.

William Gibson became famous for the trilogy "Cyberspace" ("Neuromant", "Count zero", "Mona Lisa overdrive"), which became the cornerstone of cyberpunk and defined the face of modern literature for decades to come. But very quickly the genre revolutionary became close to the framework of any genre - and the joint with Bruce Sterling steampunk epic "The Difference Machine" was followed by "Virtual Light", the first novel "The Bridge Trilogy", which takes place in a kind Alternative present, and the plot of the thriller, futuristic entourage and virtuoso stinginess of style techniques - generate an explosive, but inevitably attractive cocktail. So, a powerful earthquake spread California to the North and South, and the degeneration of the ecosphere divided all people into allergy sufferers and "adapted". Police-loser Rydell and cyclist-courier Chevetta-Marie combined by chance and together try to survive in the hunt, arranged on them by the owners of super-important information stored in sunglasses system "virtual light" ...