The Peripheral
of William Gibson
Series: Jackpot #1
Description
Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which sheâs trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marinesâ elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but sheâs had to let the shooter games go.Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there arenât many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby. Burtonâs been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. Heâs got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the gameâs not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilfâs, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 485 pages
- Publisher Berkley
- Publication Date October 6th 2015
- First Publication 10/24/14
- Language English
- ISBN 9780425276235
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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