20 relations: All Tomorrow's Parties (novel), Bridge trilogy, Cardinal point (optics), Cyberpunk, Distributed computing, Infotainment, Japanese idol, Kowloon Walled City, Love hotel, Nanotechnology, Otaku, Postmodernism, Rei Toei, Russian mafia, Science fiction, Slit-scan photography, Spike Magazine, Viking Press, Virtual Light, William Gibson.
All Tomorrow's Parties (novel)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, the third and final book in his Bridge trilogy.
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Bridge trilogy
The Bridge trilogy is a series of novels by William Gibson, his second after the successful Sprawl trilogy.
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Cardinal point (optics)
In Gaussian optics, the cardinal points consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of a rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system.
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
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Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.
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Infotainment
Infotainment (a portmanteau of information and entertainment), also called soft news, is a type of media, usually television, that provides a combination of information and entertainment.
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Japanese idol
In Japanese pop culture is a term typically used to refer to young manufactured stars/starlets marketed to be admired for their cuteness.
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Kowloon Walled City
Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned, densely populated settlement in Kowloon City in Hong Kong.
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Love hotel
A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sexual activities.
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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.
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Otaku
is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, commonly towards the anime and manga fandom.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.
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Rei Toei
Rei Toei is a fictional character in the Bridge trilogy of speculative fiction novels by William Gibson.
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Russian mafia
Russian organized crime or Russian mafia, sometimes referred to as Bratva ("brotherhood"), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Slit-scan photography
The slit-scan photography technique is a photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between the camera and the subject to be photographed.
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Spike Magazine
Spike Magazine is an internet cultural journal which began in 1995, founded by its editor Chris Mitchell in Brighton, England.
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Viking Press
Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.
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Virtual Light
Virtual Light is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, the first book in his Bridge trilogy.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
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