The Peripheral
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611763355 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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It’s brilliant.”—Cory Doctorow“From page one, The Peripheral ticks and sings with the same controlled, dark energy and effortless grace of languageLike the best of Gibson's early, groundbreaking work, it offers up the same kind of chewy, tactile future that you can taste and smell and feel on your skin; that you believe, immediately, like some impossible documentary, because the thing that Gibson has always been best at is offering up futures haunted by the past.”—NPRMore Praise for William Gibson“His eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an otherworldly sheen.”—The New Yorker“Like Pynchon and
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. 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. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.. What she sees, though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. 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. He’s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. He’s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. That’s all there is to it. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. Little buglike things turn up
"Best Gibson novel in some time." according to Daniel S. Palter. Excellent book but perhaps not a wise choice for your first Gibson novel. The first few chapters will only make sense in retrospect. The plot as a whole does not fully make sense at all. Prior readers of Gibson are used to this. Gibson does flashy technodystopia and this is his best in some time [which given the high quality of the worst of his . Amazon Customer said she's not afraid of big words like telepresence. She's pragmatic. ' "You're used to telepresence, then," Lev said."We call it getting a haircut," Flynne said, giving him a look as she got to her feet, "back in frontier days." 'This short exchange encapsulates many aspects of the book. From it we learn--or, rather, have confirmed--that: Flynne is a mite touchy about being condescended to. While self-educated, s. Peripherally J. R. Taylor "Major" reviews say Gibson is back in form with The Peripheral. I say he was never out. However, this novel doesn't feel like it's part one of his newest trilogy. It feels entirely self-consistent - a completely realized and thoroughly credit-where-due look into a set of concepts he has mulled over and plotted quite well.Like Iain M. Banks, the
He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. . William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and Distrust That Particular Flavor