Idoru

In a near-future Tokyo rebuilt after a great earthquake, the rock star Rez, one half of the duo Lo/Rez, announces that he will marry Rei Toei, an idoru: a virtual celebrity who exists only as software and projection. Chia McKenzie, a fourteen-year-old member of the Seattle Lo/Rez fan club, is sent to Tokyo to learn whether the rumor is true. Her search drags her into a scheme involving illegal nanotechnology.

Meanwhile Colin Laney, a former data analyst with an unusual gift for spotting patterns in vast streams of information, is hired to investigate Rez and the people around him. The two stories alternate until they meet in the city's media-saturated, networked underworld.

Idoru is the second novel in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, after Virtual Light and before All Tomorrow's Parties. It is a cyberpunk novel about celebrity, artificial personality and what it means to be loved by someone who is not quite real.