Agency - William Gibson
Category: Sci-Fi
Tags: Sci-Fi, Adults
William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term cyberspace and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel, Neuromancer, in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer. Now, Gibson is back with Agency - a science-fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events., Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. Eunice, the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers dont yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that its best they dont., Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and
