The Jackpot Trilogy The Peripheral, Book 1, (Paperback)

from JSilvester

I enjoy Gibson's work. This one is no exception. Very interesting idea for handling time travel. Gibson is very light on the details as to how exactly people in future London tapped into America's past but that's just typical Gibson. Looking forward to reading Agency and Jackpot when he finally r...

from gypsysmom

Although William Gibson is a favourite science fiction author I somehow missed hearing about this book when it came out in 2014. Then Gibson published the book Agency in 2020 which is set in the same future as The Peripheral and I did hear about it. When I realized it was the second book in a ser...

from elenchus

Gibson's novelty in The Peripheral is that alternate worlds (and timelines) are accessible via a mysterious server, allegedly Chinese. The characters have no evidence that matter travels between timelines: what's clear is that information does. Gibson's focus on the cybernetic aspects renders the...

from jnwelch

William Gibson has been a big deal in science fiction for a long time, ever since Neuromancer came out in 1984 and won every sci-fi award in sight. More recently he started writing books situated in the present, starting with Pattern Recognition, set in 2002, which involved our obsession with bra...

from Kellswitch

Peripheral is a return to writing "future" science fiction for the author and it is a very welcome one. As much as I loved the Blue Ant series of books there just seems to be a different feel to his books set in the more distant future. Peripheral is set in a future slightly further out from our ...