William Gibson's *Agency* follows Verity Jane, a skilled app tester, as she engages with a cutting-edge digital assistant AI named Eunice, embedded in unassuming glasses, while navigating the secretive intentions of her employers. Simultaneously, in a future London, Wilf Netherton collaborates with a powerful figure to influence alternate timelines, including Verity’s, as they confront looming catastrophic events.
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William Gibson's *Agency* follows Verity Jane, a skilled app tester, as she engages with a cutting-edge digital assistant AI named Eunice, embedded in unassuming glasses, while navigating the secretive intentions of her employers. Simultaneously, in a future London, Wilf Netherton collaborates with a powerful figure to influence alternate timelines, including Verity’s, as they confront looming catastrophic events.
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral . William Gibson has trained his 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. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-futu...
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Background threats of nuclear war and global catastrophe; no graphic depictions
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Central themes of political power, alternate timelines avoiding real-world events like Trump presidency and Brexit, corporate influence, and state surveillance
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