Idoru by William Gibson

I started reading this one before Virtual Light, because I'd found it on paperback and didn't know it was the 2nd in a trilogy. And as it turns out, I didn't need to start with the first book, as this one follows its own set of characters in its own setting, Tokyo, as rebuilt by nanobots.

Much of this story follows the dangrous misadventures of Laney, a man who works in celebrity technology, predicting fortunes with his unique ability to find nodes and patterns in data. He has this special gift because as an orphan in Gainesville Florida, he was injected with an experimental medication for adhd. While this gift is more dangerous than valuable.

Idoru is Japanese for Idol, a name used to define an era of japanese popular music. Idoru fandoms have always been a huge part of the economy and general consciousness over there, so it's only natural for this paradigm to take an occasional turn for the dangerous.

But what if the most powerful celebrity was generated by a computer, and lived in all places at once? If you're wondering, I strongly recommend this book. For a few days, it consumed me in such a fantastic, exciting way.