{"product_id":"9780241961001-peripheral-the","title":"The Peripheral","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow a major new TV series with Amazon Prime\u003cbr\u003eFlynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Peripheral\u003c\/i\u003e by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wild, richly satisfying . big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills. What a glorious ride'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players. One night, working a game set in a  futuristic but puzzlingly empty London, she sees a death that's  unnervingly vivid. Soon after she gets word that it isn't a game after  all - the future she saw is all too real, she's the only witness to a  murder and someone from that unreal tomorrow now wants her dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of a young woman caught between two worlds, \u003ci\u003eThe Peripheral\u003c\/i\u003e  interweaves two futures - pre-apocalypse USA and post-apocalypse London  - to tell a story which gets right to heart of the way we live now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A tightly plotted, tautly paced novel that unfolds with the dream logic of a fairy tale'  \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Frightening plausible. Not just a unique and brilliantly talented SF  novelist but a social and psychological visionary. A wonderful addition  to a brilliant oeuvre'  \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb . frantic with imagination'  Ned Beauman, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fast-moving, accessible, instantly gripping, so laden with cliffhangers you become afraid he'll run out of cliffs'  \u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'. \u003ci\u003eThe Peripheral, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich marks a return to the futurism of \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of \u003ci\u003eEnder's Game\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLooper and Source Code.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31784611020897,"sku":"9780241961001","price":9.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32398039.jpg?v=1737227972","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241961001-peripheral-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}