William Gibson: The Peripheral, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Peripheral
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- Verlag:
- Random House, 10/2015
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780425276235
- Artikelnummer:
- 8223221
- Umfang:
- 512 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 461 g
- Maße:
- 233 x 154 mm
- Stärke:
- 29 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 6.10.2015
- Serie:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
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...
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.
Biografie
William Gibson, geb. 1948 in South Carolina geboren. Er verliert früh seinen Vater und lebt bis zu seinem fünfzehnten Lebensjahr mit seiner Mutter in einer 2000-Seelen-Gemeinde in Virginia. Um seiner Vietnam-Einberufung zu entgehen, zieht er 1967 nach Kanada. Während seines Studiums der Englischen Literatur beginnt William Gibson Science-Fiction-Geschichten zu schreiben. William Gibson lebt mit Frau und Kind in Vancouver (Kanada).