6/10/2023 0 Comments Agency by William Gibson![]() It's a prequel/sequel (requel?) to his last book, The Peripheral, which dealt, concurrently, with a medium-future London after a slow-motion apocalypse called "The Jackpot," and a near-future now where a bunch of American war veterans, grifters, video game playtesters and a friendly robot were trying to stop an even worse future from occurring. His game is living in those spaces, checking out the view, telling us about it.Īgency, that's his newest. His language (half Appalachian economy, half leather-jacket poet of neon and decay) is all about friction and the gray spaces where disparate ideas intersect. You don't even have to listen that close. Now, William Gibson makes bombs that don'texplode. Somewhere a couple decades ago, he hit on a plot architecture that worked for him - this weird kind of thing that is all build-up and no boom - and he has stuck to it ever since. ![]() Now, though, he does something different. ![]() The early ones were messy and violent and lit such gorgeous fires. Upended genre and convention, exploded expectations. The lines that follow are loops of brittle wire wrapped around them. Their first lines are their cores - dangerous, unstable reactant mass so packed with story specific detail that every word seems carved out of TNT. ![]() William Gibson does not write novels, he makes bombs.Ĭareful, meticulous, clockwork explosives on long timers. ![]()
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