The Peripheral, which marks a return to the futurism of Neuromancer, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of Ender's Game, Looper and Source Code. 'Fast-moving, accessible, instantly gripping, so laden with cliffhangers you become afraid he'll run out of cliffs' SFXĪccording to the Guardian, in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'. frantic with imagination' Ned Beauman, Observer A wonderful addition to a brilliant oeuvre' The Times Not just a unique and brilliantly talented SF novelist but a social and psychological visionary. 'A tightly plotted, tautly paced novel that unfolds with the dream logic of a fairy tale' The Times Literary Supplement The story of a young woman caught between two worlds, The Peripheral interweaves two futures - pre-apocalypse USA and post-apocalypse London - to tell a story which gets right to heart of the way we live now. Soon after she gets word that it isn't a game after all - the future she saw is all too real, she's the only witness to a murder and someone from that unreal tomorrow now wants her dead. One night, working a game set in a futuristic but puzzlingly empty London, she sees a death that's unnervingly vivid. The Peripheral season 1, episode 6 shows Burton, Conner, Macon, and others fighting a war in Texas in 2028.

In the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players. The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer

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