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The Peripheral
Signed first edition, 2014
The Peripheral is the first novel in William Gibson’s Jackpot Trilogy, unfolding across two linked timelines. In a near-future and economically depressed rural America, Flynne Fisher works at a 3-D print shop while helping care for her ailing mother. Her brother Burton, a veteran of the Marines’ Haptic Recon unit, lives with lasting neurological injuries and supplements his income with security work for an international contractor. When Flynne takes his place on what she believes is a routine job monitoring a game, she witnesses what appears to be a murder that does not seem like a simulation.
The novel moves between Flynne’s world and early twenty-second-century London, where society is rebuilding after the “Jackpot,” a prolonged cascade of climate disasters, pandemics, and systemic failures that drastically reduced the global population. Recovery in this future depends on advanced nanotechnology known as Assemblers, resources largely controlled by the wealthy.
Powerful interests in this future use quantum servers to transmit information into the past, creating “stubs,” timelines that branch at the moment of contact. Flynne’s world is one such branch, and the job she accepted is revealed to be a remote window into the London of Wilf Netherton, a well-connected figure in that future society.
Drawn into the murder investigation, Flynne remotely enters the future through a synthetic body known as a “peripheral,” allowing her to operate seventy years beyond her own time. The narrative moves forward and backward between these distinct timelines. The Peripheral was adapted in 2022 into an Amazon television series.
Signed copy. Signed by Gibson on a special page bound-in by the publisher with gold "signed copy" on the jacket.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Putnam, 2014. Locus Award nominee (2015). John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist (2015). ISBN: 9780399158445. #10174.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
The novel moves between Flynne’s world and early twenty-second-century London, where society is rebuilding after the “Jackpot,” a prolonged cascade of climate disasters, pandemics, and systemic failures that drastically reduced the global population. Recovery in this future depends on advanced nanotechnology known as Assemblers, resources largely controlled by the wealthy.
Powerful interests in this future use quantum servers to transmit information into the past, creating “stubs,” timelines that branch at the moment of contact. Flynne’s world is one such branch, and the job she accepted is revealed to be a remote window into the London of Wilf Netherton, a well-connected figure in that future society.
Drawn into the murder investigation, Flynne remotely enters the future through a synthetic body known as a “peripheral,” allowing her to operate seventy years beyond her own time. The narrative moves forward and backward between these distinct timelines. The Peripheral was adapted in 2022 into an Amazon television series.
Signed copy. Signed by Gibson on a special page bound-in by the publisher with gold "signed copy" on the jacket.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Putnam, 2014. Locus Award nominee (2015). John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist (2015). ISBN: 9780399158445. #10174.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
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