William Gibson became famous for the Cyberspace trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive), which became the cornerstone of cyberpunk and defined the face of modern literature for decades to come. But very quickly, the genre revolutionary became the tight framework of any genre - and the steampunk epic "Machine of Differences," together with Bruce Sterling, was followed by "Virtual Light," the first novel of the "Bridge Trilogy," which takes place in a kind of alternative present, and the plot of the thriller, futuristic entourage and virtuoso stinginess style techniques give rise to explosive, but inevitably attractive cocktail.