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$1.99: The Peripheral (The Jackpot Trilogy Book 1) (eBook) by William Gibson

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AuthorWilliam Gibson
PublisherBerkley
Publication dateOctober 28, 2014
Print length498 pages
Customer Reviews4.4⭐ / 11,393 ratings

The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.

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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.

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Previous Frontpage Deal at $2 with 62 Deal Score and 17 comments.

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AuthorWilliam Gibson
PublisherBerkley
Publication dateOctober 28, 2014
Print length498 pages
Customer Reviews4.4⭐ / 11,393 ratings

The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.

DON'T MISS THE SERIES—NOW STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PRIME VIDEO!


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.

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For those new to cyberpunk, its basically a SciFi style invented by Gibson where you are thrown into the deep end with terminology you don't initially understand, but piece together from context as the story progresses. Imagine someone 30 years ago hearing about tweets and Facebook posts or hashtags, you are meant to feel that way when you start reading. This genre is not for everyone, in fact its for very few. Most get frustrated and give up. Also, I have two criticisms of Gibson: First, he is great at world building, but awful at story telling. Second, unlike a self-controlled author Gibson could not help himself and rewrote part of the sequel to this book (Agency) because someone he didn't like won an election. I stopped reading the sequel as soon as I it reached that point, it was forced and felt like an immature writer injected a change in the book to self-soothe

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