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 New York Timesbestselling author of Neuromancer and Agencypresents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future. 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. A global pandemic plays a pivotal role in the series based on William Gibson’s 2014 novel of the same name, making the experience of adapting the work almost like watching the book unfold in. 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. For William Gibson, the prophetic 74-year-old author who imagined these technologies in his 2014 novel of the same name, science fiction is always about the present. 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. The Peripheral is a hybrid cyberpunk/time travel story told from two (mostly) alternating third-person-limited points of view looking at each other from either end of an unspecified period of future history. 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. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. 'William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. "William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
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