Want to see what the future looks like? Then forget what you think you know about the author William Gibson. Sure, his classic debut novel, Neuromancer, helped coin the term cyberspace, conceive of virtual reality and preempt the internet, but there's more to his work. Much more.
He's moved on from those once science fiction concepts and we can only hope to keep up to with his new dysotopian fables. His new Jackpot trilogy begins with The Peripheral and Agency entering alternative universes populated with spooks trying to engage and control alternative versions of reality - called stubs - where Trump was never elected and Brexit never happened.
And that's just for starters.
I was fortunate enough to attend William Gibson’s Agency book launch pre Covid in 2019 where he announced that the executive producers of the Westworld TV Series, Lisa Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, would be showrunning this new series. But, you know, stuff happened and it seemed doomed to never get off the ground once we found ourselves living in pandemic stasis inside a version of Gibson’s own making.
But now its finally almost here and I’m genuinely excited to watch this, having read Gibson’s later works. I doubt it could ever live up to the books but it’s going to be one hell of a reality gamechanger for Gibson’s fans with this serious adaption. Read the book and watch the show because this might never have happened in an alternative universe.
The Peripheral launches on Amazon Prime on October 21st, 2022.
Watch The Peripheral TV Series trailer below: