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William F. Gibson, William Gibson: The Peripheral (Paperback, 2015, Penguin Books, Limited)

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade …

Review of 'The Peripheral' on 'Goodreads'

Took me a while to finish this, and I don’t know why exactly... It’s well written, exciting, has compelling characters, and it sets up its sequels pretty darn good. And yet it didn’t quite grab me as the Neuromancer-series, or even Burning Chrome. Does that make it a bad book? Absolutely not. But it did kind of convey a sense of wearing out one’s clothes, a tad trope–y, if you like. Maybe it’s just habituation.