It might be a game, but it might also be murder. What she sees, though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. He’s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. He’s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. 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. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Where Flynne and her brother Burton live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. The “peripherals” of the title are quasi-human drone bodies, with full tactile feedback, operated from any distance, which have erased any lingering distinction between the Web and the world. The Peripheral, which marks a return to the futurism of Neuromancer, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of Ender's Game, Looper and Source Code.North American master of letters William Gibson returns with his first novel in four years, The Peripheral, a high-tech thriller partly set in a decadent post-apocalyptic future.

'Fast-moving, accessible, instantly gripping, so laden with cliffhangers you become afraid he'll run out of cliffs' SFXĪccording to the Guardian, in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'. frantic with imagination' Ned Beauman, Observer A wonderful addition to a brilliant oeuvre' The Times Not just a unique and brilliantly talented SF novelist but a social and psychological visionary. 'A tightly plotted, tautly paced novel that unfolds with the dream logic of a fairy tale' The Times Literary Supplement The story of a young woman caught between two worlds, The Peripheral interweaves two futures - pre-apocalypse USA and post-apocalypse London - to tell a story which gets right to heart of the way we live now. Soon after she gets word that it isn't a game after all - the future she saw is all too real, she's the only witness to a murder and someone from that unreal tomorrow now wants her dead. One night, working a game set in a futuristic but puzzlingly empty London, she sees a death that's unnervingly vivid. In the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players.

The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer

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