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William Gibson: Agency (2020, Penguin Books, Limited) 4 stars

Review of 'Agency' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Usually longer than necessary stories have me screaming “get an editor”, but what Gibson does so well here, despite the blinding pace and flip flopping perspectives, is populate the pages with a whole series of characters that you’re more than happy to spend time with. Which might be the point, if you consider the personality of most of the “AI”s we deal with in this stub.

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@franksting We did not read the same book. This book made me almost violently angry with frustration. I didn't bother to count, but any more than zero chapters that are simple word-for-word reiterations of the previous chapter is too many. And from the midpoint through to the final two chapters, with two small exceptions, that what the future timeline was. It was terrible. I want my money back. And I have zero intent to read the final book in this cycle. Only barely liked The Peripheral. This was, to me, absolute trash.