The peripheral

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703 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4104-7679-1
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OCLC Number:
893099470

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4 stars (2 reviews)

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 asks Flynne to take over a job he's supposed to do. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. 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. What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder....

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reviewed The Peripheral by William Gibson

A drepressing future

4 stars

First of all I enjoyed the TV series more than the book. Both are a bit slow at the beginning, and to certain degrees follow different story lines, which is kinda expected. The world is kinda interesting, but the setting never gripped me as much as I hoped it would, and it is a depressing setting. All in all well worth a read. If you enjoyed the show you might be a bit disapointed by the book all depending on which part of the show you enjoyed the most.

Subjects

  • Drug traffic
  • Suspense fiction
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Large type books
  • Video games
  • Veterans
  • Fiction