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Violence
Some
Corporate and shadow-government violence; some action sequences
Language
Some
Moderate language; Gibson's characteristic dialogue
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult relationship; nothing explicit
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
AI personhood and the ethics of using a self-aware tool, the branching paths of history, who gets to decide which future survives
What this book is about
The sequel to The Peripheral. In an alternate 2017 San Francisco that avoided certain catastrophes, Verity Jane is beta-testing an AI assistant called Eunice. Operators from future London — the post-jackpot world of Wilf and Ainsley — are reaching into this stub timeline to try to prevent it from suffering the jackpot's extinctions. Gibson's meditation on AI, alternate history, and who controls the future is dense, playful, and unsettling.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
near-future AI themes with ethical weight
political violence as backdrop
best read after The Peripheral
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