The result is, in its way, as revolutionary as Neuromancer, the novel that made him famous. Gibson has re-calibrated what he calls his “yardstick” for the future. Spoilers must necessarily follow.Īfter eleven years, William Gibson has returned to tomorrow, having spent his last trilogy of novels exploring the “speculative fiction of the very recent past.” The future, it seems, caught up with Gibson, and he took a step back to take its measure before diving back into sci-fi. Like a lungfish that eventually becomes a hominin, the iPhone evolves into entire worlds inside Gibson’s mind. What struck me, though, was that as I held this iPhone I was looking at the putative form of the technology Gibson creates in the novel. I found Newgate to be much as he described in the book, though the picture he downloaded into my head was far cooler. He writes with the expectation that the reader can look up obscure places and references with the aid of Google. For his past two novels, William Gibson has assumed there exists an invisible cloud tag surrounding his work. 'Frightening, plausible.Toward the end of The Peripheral, I had cause to use my iPhone to look up Newgate Prison in London. 'Mesmerizing, captivating, haunting' Sunday Times
The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson's dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind - and what lies beyond. As Flynne searches to discover who has connected their worlds, and for what purpose, her presence here sets dangerous forces into motion.forces intent on destroying Flynne and her family in her own world. Someone in London, seventy years in the future, has found a way to open a door to Flynne's world. But this isn't like any game she's ever played before: Flynne begins to realize it isn't virtual reality. One night she dons a headset and finds herself in futuristic London-a sleek and mysterious world, alluringly different from her own hardscrabble existence. 'Big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills' Guardianįlynne Fisher lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. Discover the cult classic behind the major new TV adaption from the creators of Westworld, starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
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