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THE DYSTOPIAN SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PERIPHERAL

By: William Gibson

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Hardcover | 23 January 2020 | Edition Number 1

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They call Verity 'the app-whisperer', and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas.

Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid - which is just as well since suddenly some bad people are after Verity.

Meanwhile, in a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is tasked by all-seeing policewoman Ainsley Lowbeer with interfering in the alternative past in which Verity and Eunice exist. It appears something nasty is about to happen there - and fixing it will require not only Eunice's unique human-AI skillset but also a little help from the future.

A future which Verity soon fears may never be . . .

Industry Reviews

A sensual, remarkably visual ride, vigorous with displays of conceptual imagination and humour * The Guardian *
One of the most influential writers around . . . with Gibson's trademark panache, the story rattles along with great pace and suspense * Sunday Times *
One of our greatest science-fiction writers * New York Times *
Among our most fascinating novelists * Daily Telegraph *
His eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an otherworldly sheen * New Yorker *
One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working * Boston Globe *
Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an astounding architect of cool * Spectator *
Engaging, thought-provoking and delightful... [Gibson] can always be counted on to show us our contemporary milieu rendered magical by his unique insights, and a future rendered inhabitable by his wild yet disciplined imagination * The Washington Post *
Gibson blurs the line between real and speculative technology in a fast-paced thriller that will affirm to readers that it was well worth the wait * Booklist *
Typically visionary, yet plausible and thrilling too * I Paper *
If you're one of those who sees Gibson as a visionary, it's time to be scared - the scenarios he's playing with here don't make for comfort reading * SFX magazine *
No one can ever hope to out-Gibson Gibson... A true original * Sunday Times *
To read Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future * New York Times *
A terrific writer. Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an astounding architect of cool. He's also responsible for much of the world we live in * Spectator *
The man who saw the consequences of virtual reality before the technology had even been invented * Observer *
One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working * Boston Globe *
A glorious ride into the future * Guardian on 'The Peripheral' *
Superb . . . frantic with imagination and frantic with the appetite to see what happens next * Observer on 'The Peripheral' *

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