Maxim Jakubowski's January 2015 Book of the Month.
No one writes better about the future than William Gibson. He almost single-handedly created the 'cyberpunk' genre in which a dizzying noir atmosphere cloaked the unknown beneath a veil of technology gone mad but also created unforgettable characters who literally breathed blood, electronics and metal.
His massive new novel returns to the genre with a parallel plot taking place in two separate futures until they converge to form a hardboiled investigation that grips the neurones. A tough but rewarding read in which unknown environments have to be deciphered piece by puzzling piece but which builds into a powerful conspiracy with just that right touch of alienness to keep you disorientated.
If these are our futures, they both attract and repel but you can't take your eye off the page as you want to know what comes next. Science fiction comes alive!
He invented cyberpunk in the amazing Neuromancer, he taught us the possibilities of our own present in the incredible Spook Country and now William Gibson is playing with time. Two futures, one further from our present than the other, so it’s a dual-time novel but like no other. The further future interacts with the closer one and uses it like a game.
And the people there think the further future is the game. And it hasn’t even begun to get confusing yet. As with all his work, if you let yourself go with its flow it will take you to some amazing places. It is sensational in all senses of the word. Extremely fast moving, short chapters alternating back and forth between the two principal characters, one in each time, it really gives a lot to think about, and a lot to enjoy.
The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer. Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's keen to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Association, in compensation for neurological damage suffered in a Marines elite unit.
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The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer. Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's keen to avoid.
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The Peripheral was written by William Gibson and published by Viking an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
