Agency, 9780241974575
Paperback
Two realities collide. AI awakens. The future hangs in the balance.

Agency

sequel to the peripheral, now a major new tv series with amazon prime

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    4 January 2021

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Summary

They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer’, and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas.

Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she’s ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid - which is just as well since suddenly some bad people are after Verity.

Meanwhile, in a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241974575
ISBN-10:0241974577
Author:William Gibson
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:4 January 2021
Weight:280g
Dimensions:194mm x 128mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

A sensual, remarkably visual ride, vigorous with displays of conceptual imagination and humour

A sensual, remarkably visual ride, vigorous with displays of conceptual imagination and humour * The Guardian *One of the most influential writers around … with Gibson’s trademark panache, the story rattles along with great pace and suspense * Sunday Times *One of our greatest science-fiction writers * New York Times *Among our most fascinating novelists * Daily Telegraph *His eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an otherworldly sheen * New Yorker *One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working * Boston Globe *Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an astounding architect of cool * Spectator *Engaging, thought-provoking and delightful… [Gibson] can always be counted on to show us our contemporary milieu rendered magical by his unique insights, and a future rendered inhabitable by his wild yet disciplined imagination * The Washington Post *Gibson blurs the line between real and speculative technology in a fast-paced thriller that will affirm to readers that it was well worth the wait * Booklist *Typically visionary, yet plausible and thrilling too * I Paper *

About The Author

William Gibson

William Gibson is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace” and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. His first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide, and Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed the trilogy. He has written six further novels about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels include Spook Country, Zero History and The Peripheral. His non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavour, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career.

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