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 "The Gibson of The Peripheral is interested in ideas but he’s also very much interested in big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills. Unlike more po-faced SF writers, he takes glee in kick-assery of an adolescent sort." "The Peripheral" is engaged with serious ideas — the moral pressure of life in late capitalist society, the state of identity in a world of mingled gamer-selves, online-selves, physical-selves — and through them it achieves the strange effect of making our own accelerated days feel quaint, at least partially analog for a bit longer, "oddly optimistic," still yet to endure anything truly apocalyptic.  "What sets each book apart is the worldbuilding that surrounds that plot kernel. This time around, it’s particularly intriguing." "All of Gibson’s characters are intensely real, and Flynne is a clever, compelling, stereotype-defying, unhesitating protagonist who makes this novel a standout." Belongs to SeriesAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010â??s New York Timesâ??bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteranâ??s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMCâ??s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but thereâ??s a job heâ??s supposed to doâ??a job Flynne didnâ??t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. Heâ??s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. Thatâ??s all there is to it. Heâ??s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isnâ??t what Burton told her to expect. It might be No library descriptions found. |
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