![]() "The street finds its own uses for things," William Gibson wrote in his 1982 short story "Burning Chrome," one of the foundational texts of science fiction's cyberpunk branch. (In the same story, Gibson coins the term "cyberspace.") The line concisely summarizes how technology gets repurposed and used in ways its inventors never intended. We are, in many respects, living in the world Gibson envisioned, including the way every innovation gets redirected to new ends, some inventive and some destructive.Īdapted from Gibson's 2014 novel of the same name (the first in a proposed trilogy), The Peripheral expands the notion of what "the street" means. Unfolding across two timeframes and two continents, the series' settings - a rural Appalachian community in the near-future of 2032 and a strangely quiet, seemingly underpopulated London of 2099 - are far removed from the crowded, cluttered near-future spaces found in Gibson novels like Neuromancer. ![]()
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