It's been nearly 20 years since I first interviewed Gibson and in the intervening decades we've become both friends and colleagues. Between then and now is Archangel, a time-traveling, alt-history, dieselpunk story of power-mad leaders and nuclear armageddon that will be in stores on October 3. We can only serve the continental US, Alaska, and Hawaii.William Gibson's 2014 novel The Peripheral was the first futuristic book he published in the 21st century, and it showed us a distant future in which some event, "The Jackpot," had killed nearly everyone on Earth, leaving behind a class of ruthless oligarchs and their bootlickers in the 2018 sequel, Agency, we're promised a closer look at the events of The Jackpot.
Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf's, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.įlynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. He's got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game's not a shooter. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.īurton's been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren't many have-nots left. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she's had to let the shooter games go.
Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines' elite Haptic Recon unit.
SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON PRIME VIDEOįlynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's trying to avoid. The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.
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