creates a future that is astoundingly inventive and frighteningly plausible.A wonderful addition to a brilliant oeuvre.”- The Sunday Times (UK) “ revered not just as a unique and brilliantly talented SF novelist but a social and psychological visionary. “From page one, The Peripheral ticks and sings with the same controlled, dark energy and effortless grace of language.Like the best of Gibson’s early, groundbreaking work, it offers up the same kind of chewy, tactile future that you can taste and smell and feel on your skin that you believe, immediately, like some impossible documentary, because the thing that Gibson has always been best at is offering up futures haunted by the past.”-NPR “Spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer and all the maturity and sly wit of Spook Country. “William Gibson’s science fiction is so eerily prophetic that sometimes it seems as if he’s creating the future, not just imagining it.”- The New York Times Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.įlynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. He’s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game’s not a shooter.

Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.īurton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go.

Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop.

Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.ĭON'T MISS THE SERIES-NOW STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PRIME VIDEO!įlynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid.

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