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'''All Tomorrow's Parties''' is a 1999 novel by [[William Gibson]] and the third and concluding volume of the [[Bridge Trilogy]]. Set in a near-future [[San Francisco Bay Area|San Francisco Bay Area]] and [[Tokyo]], the novel brings together several continuing characters from the earlier Bridge books, including [[Berry Rydell]], [[Chevette Washington]], and [[Colin Laney]]. Its plot centers on Laney's attempt to prevent the public-relations magnate Cody Harwood from exploiting an approaching "nodal point" of historical change focused on the settlement built on the [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge|Bay Bridge]].


Critics have generally treated the novel as part of Gibson's turn away from the distant futures of his early cyberpunk fiction and toward a more immediate near-future mode concerned with media, infrastructure, urban space, and corporate power. Commentary on the novel has often emphasized the Bridge as an interstitial and precarious social space, the book's interest in prediction and historical contingency, and its treatment of embodiment and virtual presence through the figure of [[Rei Toei]].

Reception was mixed. Reviewers often praised Gibson's prose and his rendering of a near-future urban environment, while also expressing reservations about characterization, clarity, and the ending. The novel later placed 15th in the 2000 ''[[Locus Awards|Locus]]'' Awards and was nominated for the 2001 [[Seiun Award]] for best foreign novel.
==Background and publication==
==Background and publication==


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