WILLIAM GIBSON / The Peripheral

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 7:30pm
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

 

 

“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, bestselling author of Little Brother and Homeland, co-editor of Boing Boing

 

New York Times-bestselling author William Gibson returns to fiction after four years with THE PERIPHERAL.  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.  He also conceptualized video games and the rise of reality TV long before they became ubiquitous.  After setting his three most recent novels in our science-fictional present, Gibson ventures back the future with a high tech thriller that is also a murder mystery, a provocative social and political commentary, and a far-seeing introduction to the realm of advanced haptics (the science of adding tactile feedback to technological systems).

 

Flynne, a young woman from a decaying near-future American town, takes a temporary job testing a new computer game, or so she's told. While remotely operating a security drone over a futuristic version of London, she witnesses what she assumes is the simulation of a horrifying murder—or is it real? Soon she finds herself in the 22nd Century, virtually present in a hauntingly beautiful android drone, “a peripheral”, with the fate of her own “past” world depending on her.

 

 

 

William Gibson is the 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. Neuromancer was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. He is also a recipient of the Ditmar, and Seiun awards, as well as the Prix Aurora.  He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.  It is an honor to have him return to The Booksmith.

 

 

Reserved seats are no longer available. There will, however, be plenty of standing room available, with full sound throughout the store!

 

 

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The Peripheral By William Gibson Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9780399158445
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Berkley Books - October 28th, 2014