William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, The Peripheral, and Agency. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.
“William Gibson’s science fiction is so eerily prophetic that
sometimes it seems as if he’s creating the future, not just
imagining it.”—The New York Times
Praise for The Peripheral
“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
“From page one, The Peripheral ticks and sings with the same
controlled, dark energy and effortless grace of language....Like
the best of Gibson’s early, groundbreaking work, it offers up the
same kind of chewy, tactile future that you can taste and smell and
feel on your skin; that you believe, immediately, like some
impossible documentary, because the thing that Gibson has always
been best at is offering up futures haunted by the past.”—NPR
“[Gibson is] revered not just as a unique and brilliantly talented
SF novelist but a social and psychological visionary....[The
Peripheral] creates a future that is astoundingly inventive and
frighteningly plausible....A wonderful addition to a brilliant
oeuvre.”—The Sunday Times (UK)
“Gibson's characters are intensely real, and Flynne is a clever,
compelling, stereotype-defying, unhesitating protagonist who makes
this novel a standout.”—Publishers Weekly
“The Peripheral is one of [Gibson's] most sophisticated
attention-management machines, a culmination of his career, both a
return to old themes and a step forward, and his most sustained
experiment in helping us, even if only for a moment, see the world
with new eyes.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
“No one writes better about the near future than Gibson.”—The
Washington Post
“Like any really well-designed thrill ride of mystery tour (or
sonnet or string quartet), as soon as you get off, you want to get
right on for another go-round.”—Locus
More Praise for William Gibson
“His eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an
otherworldly sheen.”—The New Yorker
“Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden
forces that shape our world.”—Details
“William Gibson can craft sentences of uncanny beauty, and he is a
great poet of crowds.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“Gibson’s radar is deftly tuned to the changes in the culture that
many of us are missing.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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