Name: The Peripheral
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Author: William Gibson
ISBN: 9780425276235

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Gibson

Publisher

Berkley Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

512

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15.2x2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780425276235

Synopsis "The Peripheral "

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.

William Gibson

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William Gibson es uno de los escritores de ciencia ficción más influyentes y elogiados del mundo. Es autor de doce novelas (incluyendo La máquina diferencial coescrita con Bruce Sterling), una antología de relatos (Quemando cromo) y una colección de ensayos (Distrust That Particular Flavor). Considerado un visionario, difunde un potente discurso acerca de nuestros deseos culturales, miedos y obsesiones sobre temas como las multinacionales, la política global, los datos computarizados, la ingeniería genética, la cibernética, el miedo a lo tecnológico y, en última instancia, el significado de ser humano en una era infinitamente compleja.

Su famosa novela Neuromante acuñó el término «ciberespacio» y nos ofreció la primera aproximación a Internet. En siguientes obras superventas, Gibson nos ofreció descripciones proféticas y convincentes de lo que sería la prensa del corazón, la tele realidad y la nanotecnología. Su obra se ha visto influida por la de otros autores y académicos, además de por la tecnología, la cultura popular, el arte y la música. Gibson también ha colaborado en numerosas ocasiones en el campo de las artes escénicas, la música y el cine. Actualmente vive en Vancouver con su mujer.

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