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The Peripheral av William Gibson
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The Peripheral (utgåvan 2014)

av William Gibson (Författare)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010??s New York Times??bestselling Zero History.

Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran??s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC??s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there??s a job he??s supposed to do??a job Flynne didn??t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.

The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He??s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That??s all there is to it. He??s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn??t what Burton told her to expect. It might be
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Medlem:CiaraCat
Titel:The Peripheral
Författare:William Gibson (Författare)
Info:Berkley (2014), Edition: First Edition, 496 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
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Taggar:2015-hugo-eligible, to-read

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The Peripheral av William Gibson

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    melmore: Both works extrapolate from our current situation to imagine not-dissimilar futures. Both are concerned with questions of wealth distribution, resource depletion, human agency, equality, freedom. Both have super bad-ass female protagonists (who are nonetheless recognizable human beings).… (mer)
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Typical William Gibson futuristic and dystopian science fiction, with a confusion of characters, plot and terminology, but nevertheless some intrigue and adventure. Fun to read, and afterwards instantly forgettable. ( )
  breathslow | Jan 27, 2024 |
It was fine but didn't really enthrall me. the characters weren't fleshed out and I didn't really empathize with them. Interesting set up, but not really well explained, often disorienting (I think on purpose, but that doesn't work well in audio book format which is how I experienced it). ( )
  stardustwisdom | Dec 31, 2023 |
Lots of interesting sci-fi ideas, some interesting characters and places, but... it's like an entire plot premised on deus ex machina. And WTF was that Harry Potter ending? Oh well, still really enjoyed it. ( )
  mmparker | Oct 24, 2023 |
The beginning was more confusing than Dune. By beginning, I mean the first 2/3 of the book. It got enjoyable after that. ( )
  Tom_Wright | Oct 11, 2023 |
Gibson, após passar por trilogias futurísticas e de ficção-científica do tempo presente, enreda nosso presente no futuro, comentando assim sobre nosso estado atual de início de crise climática e suas possíveis consequências, e levando em conta os nossos ânimos político-empresariais cleptocratas/feudais. Essa ansiedade de ver-se atrelado a um futuro catastrófico é manejada com marcas características do autor: duas narrativas entrecortadas que se encontram cada vez mais, em um enredo detetivesco, com armas exuberantes, a presença de caprichos de milionários, a excentricidade dos desejos e sua ligação com a arte, e o final feliz. Há ótimas ideias - a boa utilização do tropo da viagem do tempo (corretamente caracterizado pela teoria dos mundos possíveis), a realidade aumentada dos periféricos humanóides, o próprio jackpot (a catástrofe multifacetada e arrastada). Há personagens interessantes como Wilf, Flynne e Ash, mas há muitos e alguns ficam relegados a segundo plano de modo não muito convincente. O tempo do livro é bastante rápido, com um clima de pílulas pop, mas o enredo rocambolesco parece com isso perder um pouco da força, por não deter-se em nenhum desenvolvimento maior.

Ps: a série também é legal, mas há a estranha sensação de similaridade com suficiente diferença que acaba fazendo com que ambas as obras se atrapalhem, como universos paralelos - a série aliás, desenvolve melhor os personagens, a custo da narrativa, que não descamba totalmente, mas se perde um pouco em incongruências televisivas. ( )
  henrique_iwao | Aug 22, 2023 |
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"The Gibson of The Peripheral is interested in ideas but he’s also very much interested in big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills. Unlike more po-faced SF writers, he takes glee in kick-assery of an adolescent sort."
tillagd av bookfitz | ändraThe Guardian, Sam Leith (Nov 19, 2014)
 
"The Peripheral" is engaged with serious ideas — the moral pressure of life in late capitalist society, the state of identity in a world of mingled gamer-selves, online-selves, physical-selves — and through them it achieves the strange effect of making our own accelerated days feel quaint, at least partially analog for a bit longer, "oddly optimistic," still yet to endure anything truly apocalyptic.
 
"What sets each book apart is the worldbuilding that surrounds that plot kernel. This time around, it’s particularly intriguing."
tillagd av bookfitz | ändraKirkus Reviews (Oct 15, 2014)
 
"All of Gibson’s characters are intensely real, and Flynne is a clever, compelling, stereotype-defying, unhesitating protagonist who makes this novel a standout."
tillagd av bookfitz | ändraPublishers Weekly (Sep 1, 2014)
 

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010??s New York Times??bestselling Zero History.

Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran??s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC??s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there??s a job he??s supposed to do??a job Flynne didn??t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.

The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He??s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That??s all there is to it. He??s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn??t what Burton told her to expect. It might be

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