![]() ![]() In the second, set around 2136, 80% of the world’s population has died in an environmental catastrophe/societal realignment known as “the jackpot.” In one, set in the near future, a young woman stuck in a dead-end, rural town thinks she is playing a video game and witnesses a real-life murder. So he went back to something that was very much science fiction in “The Peripheral,” set in 2014, which toggled between two narrative streams and then, as is his wont, brought them together. Nobody believed him when he kept saying his Blue Ant trilogy was made of books set around the time they were published (2002, 2007, 2010) - folks were just too used to him predicting rough versions of the stuff that would eventually become common coin. » Related: ‘Such a Fun Age’ tackles parenthood, insidious racism His Bridge trilogy was published in the 1990s and set around 2006 or so with its post-disaster tent cities and obsessions with the long-term ramifications of emergent technology and artificial pop stars, it might have the best resonance with our particular right-now. He works in trilogies, first being the Sprawl trilogy published in the 1980s, the one that started with the genre-shaking “Neuromancer” (1984) and introduced the world to his idea of “cyberspace” specifically and the street-savvy future-noir of cyberpunk in general. About 40 years into one of the most important and influential careers in post-war science fiction, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that William Gibson’s novels fall into a particular pattern. ![]()
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