The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage''s perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development [...]
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.
The Peripheral by William Gibson - a thrilling new novel about drones, murder and time-travelling crime, from the bestselling author of NeuromancerSome time around the year 2020, in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child.At precisely the same moment, one hundred years in the future, a boy is remotely killed on the streets of London''s great skyscrapers. The perpetrator remains anonymous.Interweaving two strange futures, from a ramshackle community of US army veterans, to the teeming masses of a mega city, The Peripheral tells the story of a brave new world of drones, outsourcing and kleptocracy, and of a crime that can only be solved across time.According to the Guardian, in terms of influence Gibson is ''probably the most important novelist of the past two decades''. The Peripheral, which marks a return to the futurism of Neuromancer, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of Ender''s Game, Looper and Source Code.William Gibson''s first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy. He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels are Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History, his non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career.
Siete años después de los acontecimientos de Neuromante, el Conde Cero, pirata de sistemas de información, consigue una rara pieza de software, se conecta a la matriz, y casi pierde la cabeza. La Matriz de Ciberespacio, una base sinergica que abarca todo el planeta, se ha transformado en una red sensitiva. Pero la humanidad no se ha dado cuenta. La muchacha cuyo sistema nervioso ha sido alterado para que pueda tener acceso a la Matriz, tampoco entiende lo que ocurre. Mientras, en Francia, la encargada de una galeria trata de encontrar al misterioso y desconocido creador de ciertos objetos de arte, poderosos y unicos.
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In 1855 London, a steam driven calculator heralds a new age of information as everything from fast food to credit cards turns the Victorian Era into a bizarre modern-day world. "Bursting with the kind of demented speculation and obsessive detailing that has made both Gibson's and Sterling's work stand out in the past".--San Francisco Chronicle.
