num_pages: 325
description: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich—or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...
language: English
title: Virtual Light
titlecomplete: Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 25056
series: Bridge
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Prix Aurora Award
category: Best Long Form Work in English
publisher: Bantam Spectra