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No current Talk conversations about this book. Pretty slow start but very engaging story by the end. Neuromancer had clumsy enough prose that I never finished it, but Gibson, here, is sharp. The Peripheral reads more like a fast-moving procedural than a sci-fi story. It is chock full of ideas and philosophy, much of which is rewarding for later complemplative thought, but which doesn't particularly slow down the narrative while you are reading, which is a high compliment for something on the edge of hard sci-fi. The characters are lots of fun, enough so that the TV adaptation literally jettisoned 90% of the narrative and still worked reasonably well (even if it inevitably turned nonsensical). too many characters I loved every page of The Peripheral.
"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 SeriesAwardsDistinctions
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HTML:William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010??s New York Times??bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran??s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC??s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there??s a job he??s supposed to do??a job Flynne didn??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. He??s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That??s all there is to it. He??s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn??t what Burton told her to expect. It might be No library descriptions found. |
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Ps: a série também é legal, mas há a estranha sensação de similaridade com suficiente diferença que acaba fazendo com que ambas as obras se atrapalhem, como universos paralelos - a série aliás, desenvolve melhor os personagens, a custo da narrativa, que não descamba totalmente, mas se perde um pouco em incongruências televisivas. (