![]() They focus on a young, poor Southern woman, Flynn Fisher, and her family. The future-near-to-us characters are also the more sympathetic. Other parallels appear see spoiler section at the bottom of this post. This dual-track time-travel-ish idea owes much to Gregory Benford’s 1980 novel Timescape. Then more, which aren’t propositions but assassinations. The far-future signals the closer-to-us future, and has a proposition. Then we learn that the further-along future has discovered a form of time travel – well, information exchange with the past, to be precise. ![]() At first we follow these in parallel, trying to infer connections. This novel relies on two timelines, one in the near-to-medium term future, and one almost a century away. His classic cyberpunk or Sprawl trilogy envisioned a medium-term future, also tending to thriller linearity.īut in The Peripheral we see a very different conceit and narrative structure. His recent brace of novels looked at the very near future, each following a normal linear path. The Peripheral offers another pleasure, that of Gibson trying something new. He excites with his uncanny glimpses of the future, grounded in canny selections from our time. ![]() He delights with the cool, sardonic yet imaginative visions of the present and future. ![]() ![]() Reading a new William Gibson novel is both delightful and exciting. ![]()
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