The Peripheral

As a favor to her brother Burton, Flynne Fisher fills in on a mysterious job beta testing a new game. She’s glad for the work, as money is tight with her mother needing constant medical care and Burton having financial troubles since he left the marines. Remotely flying a copter around a high-rise building, Flynne is tasked with simply keeping the paparazzi drones away from one of the apartments, but after she witnesses a murder, everything in her life is going to change.

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William Gibson is the author of eleven books including Spook Country, Pattern Recognition, Zero History and His 1984 debut novel Neuromancer was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes: the Hugo Award, the Nebula and the Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award. A founder of the “cyberpunk” genre, Gibson is credited with coining the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome”.

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