![]() ![]() ![]() A woman on a high-rise balcony topples over the edge and seems to be consumed by swarm of insect-like particles: “She was never able to remember any more blood, just the tumbling form in its black t-shirt and striped pants.” Flynne is left to wonder whether she’s playing a virtual game or witnessing a real-life murder. While she’s busy zapping drones online in his stead, something happens that makes Flynne regret her willingness to do lucrative favors for her sibling. ![]() But when he’s called away from home, he enlists his sister, Flynne, to take over his duties for the night. He also picks up some easy cash on the side, ostensibly as a video game beta-tester. In a town where few residents are able to find employment outside the drug business, Burton Fisher collects disability for the faulty implants he was equipped with during his days in the Marines. Four years after the publication of the final volume, with a collection of nonfiction published in the interim, Gibson wholeheartedly jumps back into science fiction with “The Peripheral.” Set in two time lines, one somewhere in the rural South and the other in a futuristic London, the novel delivers the kinds of speculative kicks and cagy humor that Gibson’s readers have come to expect. ![]()
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