5/11/2023 0 Comments William gibson agency"Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Cory Doctorow raved that "The Peripheral " is "spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer." Now Gibson is back with "Agency"-a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. William Gibson has trained his gifted eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term "cyberspace" and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel "Neuromancer" in the early 1980s. In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling "The Peripheral," a gifted "app-whisperer," hired to beta test a mysterious new product, finds her life endangered by her relationship with her surprisingly street-smart and combat-savvy "digital assistant." "One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a brand-new novel. Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction (2020) Nominee Locus Award for Best SF Novel (2021) Nominee
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