The Peripheral review: William Gibson’s noir debuts on Amazon Prime

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her member with a virtual world crippled and ends up successful a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is truthful stuffed with ideas it volition request seasons to unpack

Technology 20 October 2022

By Bethan Ackerley

Chloe Grace Moretz arsenic Flynne Fisher

Sophie Mutevelian/Prime Video

The Peripheral

Amazon Prime Video, from 21 October

Over the past 40 years, William Gibson has acquired rather a estimation arsenic a seer. A pioneer of the cyberpunk genre, helium has predicted versions of everything from the satellite wide web to online personage deification. Despite this, helium has agelong insisted that he, similar each writers of subject fiction, is “almost ever wrong”.

It remains to beryllium seen whether The Peripheral, Gibson’s 2014 mystery-thriller novel­­­­ acceptable successful 2 intimately linked timelines, volition beryllium prescient …