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The Peripheral by William Gibson (2014, Hardcover) First/ First
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399158445
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0399158448
ISBN-13
9780399158445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201658294
Product Key Features
Book Title
Peripheral
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Thrillers / Technological, Science Fiction / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-028558
Reviews
Praise for The Peripheral "Spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer and all the maturity and sly wit of Spook Country . It's brilliant." -Cory Doctorow Praise for William Gibson "To read Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future." -The New York Times "Gibson's radar is deftly tuned to the changes in the culture that many of us are missing." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." -The Boston Globe "Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world." -Details, Praise for The Peripheral "Spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer and all the maturity and sly wit of Spook Country . It's brilliant." -Cory Doctorow Praise for William Gibson "To read Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future." -The New York Times"Gibson's radar is deftly tuned to the changes in the culture that many of us are missing." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." -The Boston Globe"Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world." -Details, "Spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer and all the maturity and sly wit of Spook Country . It's brilliant."--Cory Doctorow "From page one, The Peripheral ticks and sings with the same controlled, dark energy and effortless grace of language...Like 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."--NPR More Praise for William Gibson "His eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an otherworldly sheen."-- The New Yorker "Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world."-- Details "William Gibson can craft sentences of uncanny beauty, and is our great poet of crowds."-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Gibson's radar is deftly tuned to the changes in the culture that many of us are missing."-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "To read Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future." -The New York Times "Gibson's radar is deftly tuned to the changes in the culture that many of us are missing." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." -The Boston Globe "Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world." -Details
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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 bug-like 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 a game, but it might also be murder., The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Zero History presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future... Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines' 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 she's 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 aren't 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. Burton's been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He's got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game's 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 Wilf's, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.
LC Classification Number
PS3557.I2264P47 2014
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