The Peripheral - Brossura

Gibson, William

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ISBN 10: 0670921564 ISBN 13: 9780670921560

Casa editrice: Viking, 2014

Riassunto

The Peripheral by William Gibson - a thrilling new novel about drones, murder and time-travelling crime, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer

Some time around the year 2020, in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child.

At precisely the same moment, one hundred years in the future, a boy is remotely killed on the streets of London's great skyscrapers. The perpetrator remains anonymous.

Interweaving two strange futures, from a ramshackle community of US army veterans, to the teeming masses of a mega city, The Peripheral tells the story of a brave new world of drones, outsourcing and kleptocracy, and of a crime that can only be solved across time.

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.

William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy. He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels are Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History, his non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career.

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Recensione:

Superb ... frantic with imagination and frantic with the appetite to see what happens next (Ned Beauman Observer)

What a glorious ride! Like the woman said: brain 'splode (Sam Leith Guardian)

This is a mesmerizing, captivating, haunting book - a wonderful addition to a brilliant oeuvre (Harry Ritchie Sunday Times)

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)

A swirlingly philosophical quantum daydream of drones and bodyswapping (Daily Telegraph Books of the Year)

When it comes to speculative fiction that reveals how we live by creating a not too unimaginable alternative reality, William Gibson is the don (Esquire)

L'autore:

William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy. He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels include Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History, his non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career.

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• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0670921564
• ISBN 13: 9780670921560
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496