num_pages: 304
description: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium 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: Thriller, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 25049
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: Penguin Books Ltd