![]() I talked to Gibson about the book, his highly active Twitter account ( and what he's working on next. Gibson's far-future characters, in typically wry tone, have dubbed this troubling period "The Jackpot." The first is somewhere in rural America fast-forwarded 20 years, filled with drones, meth labs, and megastores serving questionable fast food like "pork nubbins." There's also a more distant and confusing 22nd century populated by plutocrats, celebrities, and publicists, wielding impossibly advanced technology that shapes the world to their whims and destroys their enemies instantly.īetween the two, a series of catastrophes has wiped out 80% of the world's population, leaving only the wealthiest to survive. ![]() ![]() " The Peripheral" flips between two futures. Often, they read like a classic noir novel in an uncanny valley setting - totally recognizable and disturbingly off-kilter at the same time. His books are subtler, funnier, and more psychologically astute than most of what's called science fiction. His early work formed the bedrock for a lot of later science fiction franchises - everything from "The Matrix" movies to Ernest Cline's 2011 novel, " Ready Player One," which is used as inspiration by those working on Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset. Gibson is most famous for inventing the term "cyberspace," which he coined in his 1982 short story, "Burning Chrome," and elaborated on in later novels, most famously 1984's " Neuromancer," which has sold in the millions. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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