All Tomorrow's Parties

All Tomorrow's Parties is the concluding novel of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, which began with Virtual Light and continued with Idoru. It was published in 1999. The trilogy is set in a near-future, post-earthquake San Francisco and Tokyo.

All Tomorrow's Parties is set primarily in a near-future San Francisco centered on the Bay Bridge shantytown community. The Bridge, a squatter settlement on the damaged Oakland Bay Bridge, serves as a key location in the novel. The story also involves a plot surrounding a nanotech device manufactured by a corporation.

All Tomorrow's Parties interweaves storylines involving former police officer Rydell, who appeared in Virtual Light, and the data-finder Colin Laney from Idoru. Other characters include a mysterious figure known as the idoru, Rei Toei. The novel brings together threads from the previous two Bridge trilogy books.

Yes, All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson is considered part of the cyberpunk genre, like much of the author's earlier work. However, the Bridge trilogy is sometimes categorized as post-cyberpunk for its focus on social and cultural impacts of technology rather than pure noir action. The novel explores themes of emergent technology and corporate power.