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Finished William Gibson's The Peripheral in a marathon reading session yesterday. It's the best Gibson book I've read in a while. I really liked the details he put into the near future on this one. He does some really nice character development tricks. Most of the chapters are quite short, switching viewpoints from one character to another each chapter, but after meeting all the characters, switching viewpoints is clear and sharp. The pace starts out moving along moderately, but you feel a steady acceleration until the trees are flying by in a blur.
I feel Gibson was trying to say things about "the deplorables" and the "intellectual elite". He mixes it all that mythology up in lovely ways. There is plenty of dystopian flavor here, I mean what else would you expect from Gibson, but the message and conclusion are notably not dystopian. Maybe in 1984 Gibson felt people needed to be reminded that things could go very wrong. Now maybe people need to be reminded that things could possibly, maybe, go right.
If you haven't read either this or Spook Country yet, skip Spook Country and pick this one up.
16. William Gibson The Peripheral
I feel Gibson was trying to say things about "the deplorables" and the "intellectual elite". He mixes it all that mythology up in lovely ways. There is plenty of dystopian flavor here, I mean what else would you expect from Gibson, but the message and conclusion are notably not dystopian. Maybe in 1984 Gibson felt people needed to be reminded that things could go very wrong. Now maybe people need to be reminded that things could possibly, maybe, go right.
If you haven't read either this or Spook Country yet, skip Spook Country and pick this one up.
16. William Gibson The Peripheral
