Gibson skillfully alternates short chapters from Verity’s 2017 reality with Wilf Netherton’s 2136. That future is 2136, the timeline and the characters we came to know in The Peripheral. With a shock, Verity realizes that she is visiting the future. Eventually they make it possible for Verity to visit their world by sending her awareness to inhabit a much more sophisticated android, one that looks human and is considered semi-sentient in its own right. In fact, the decision to trust someone is the closest thing to agency anyone has in this novel.īefore Verity knows exactly what’s going on, she’s on the run from her original employer Eunice abruptly disappears and a few people get in touch with her via a strange robot. But Verity, for reasons she can’t understand, trusts Eunice and the network of people she is put in contact with. We start off in an alternate 2017 (Clinton won, no Brexit) when Verity, the “app whisperer” in San Francisco, takes a job from a mysterious corporation to evaluate a new headset and eyeglasses.Ībruptly she finds the high-tech rig talking to her in the voice of Eunice, an advanced artificial intelligence, who enlists her in a series of urgent actions of questionable legality. Since this is Gibson, the ride is always interesting, even fun, despite the fact that everyone is always mostly in the dark about who is calling the shots and why and where it’s all heading.
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