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! ~ Maxim Jakubowski
The Peripheral by William Gibson - a thrilling new novel about drones, murder and time-travelling crime, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer
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The Peripheral by William Gibson - a thrilling new novel about drones, murder and time-travelling crime, from the bestselling author of NeuromancerSome time around the year 2020, in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child.
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The Peripheral was written by William Gibson and published by Viking an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Peripheral has 400 pages
