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THE PERIPHERAL - WILLIAM GIBSON KARTONIERT (TB)

Flynne Fisher lives down a country road  in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce 
unless you count illegal drug manufacture  which she's keen to avoid. Her brother Burton lives
or tries to  on money from the Veterans Association  in compensation for neurological damage
suffered in a Marines elite unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local
3D printshop. She used to make 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 as 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 his sister taking over shifts  promised her the game's not a shooter. Still  the crime
Flynne 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.  According to the Guardian 
in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'.
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.

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