The discovery of some strange and derelict Chinese server has allowed people to reach into the past and create new timelines which continue forward on their own. On the other end of the arrow of time we have Wilf Netherton, living in 22nd century London, on the better side of an apocalypse which has been slowly swallowing the Earth. However, soon she witnesses a brutal murder in the game, and begins to wonder whether or not there is something deeper and more sinister at play behind this virtual world. The money is good enough for Flynn to agree to take over Burton’s shifts for him, especially since he promised her this wasn’t a shooter like the games she used to play. Unbeknownst to her though, Burton has been moonlighting and working security in a strange game prototype, one vaguely recreating the city of London, albeit with a wilder imagination. Her brother Burton benefits from a government pension from the Veterans Administration, for the neurological damage he suffered as part of the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit.įlynn used to work as a scout in an online game for a rich man, and made quite a lot more money than she is getting now at the local 3D print shop, but she felt she had to let the games go. To begin with, the story takes us to rural America, where we’re introduced to Flynn Fisher, living in the countryside where jobs are harder to find than the unemployed. On the other hand, the more we learn about it, the more we seem to realize how impossibly difficult such a feat would be, but that hasn’t stopped the people of the 22nd century from finding a way, in William Gibson‘s The Peripheral, the first entry in The Jackpot Trilogy name. On one hand, better knowledge of it and its nature would, logically-speaking, eventually open up venues for its manipulation.

The more we learn about time, the more it feels like we’re pulling in two different directions. William Gibson Reaches Back from the Future

The peripheral by william gibson