The book is told in staccato chapters, interchanging between two limited third-person perspectives inhabiting two different timeframes. The density of the novel’s first one-hundred pages will come as no surprise to those familiar with the author’s oeuvre. Wells epigraph at the beginning of the novel warns “of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.” The sickness and confusion that is Gibson’s concern does not just impact at the individual level, but at the level of whole societies. However, it is a distinctly Gibsonian concept of time travel presented in this book, used as way to explore how the past and the present, the present and the future, are in constant conversation. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.The Peripheral, William Gibson’s latest book, is the noir prophet of cyberpunk’s version of a time travel novel. William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Liza Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. "Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world." -Details" "One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." -The Boston Globe" "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"
"Spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancerand all the maturity and sly wit of Spook Country. 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 from implants 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. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Gibson's award-winning debut novel, Neuromancer, which predicted, via his original concept of “cyberspace”, much of today’s Internet. The New York Times-bestselling author and "god of speculative fiction" (New York Magazine) returns after four years with The Peripheral, a high-tech thriller set partly in a decadent post-apocalyptic future.
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