“They seek him here, they seek him there, those Toulousains seek him everywhere, that paragon of guile and spark, that damned elusive Gibson-Park.” A bit of fun but not a large exaggeration in terms of his influence on Leinster’s victory. It seems appropriate to adapt former Irish Times rugby correspondent Paul McWeeney’s eulogy to Jack Kyle (based originally on Baroness Emma Orczy’s ditty about The Scarlet Pimpernel) in a homily to the 31-year-old Leinster scrumhalf based on his man-of-the-match performance in the Heineken Champions Cup semi-final victory over Toulouse.
The Leinster and Ireland scrumhalf projects a blue-clad blur of activity, perpetually in motion. The Peripheral, which marks a return to the futurism of Neuromancer, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of Ender's Game, Looper and Source Code.Take the pulse of Leinster’s attack in any given match and you will find Jamison Gibson-Park at its heartbeat, the player that elevates adrenaline levels on the pitch and in the stands. 'Fast-moving, accessible, instantly gripping, so laden with cliffhangers you become afraid he'll run out of cliffs' SFXĪccording to the Guardian, in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'. frantic with imagination' Ned Beauman, Observer A wonderful addition to a brilliant oeuvre' The Times Not just a unique and brilliantly talented SF novelist but a social and psychological visionary. 'A tightly plotted, tautly paced novel that unfolds with the dream logic of a fairy tale' The Times Literary Supplement The story of a young woman caught between two worlds, The Peripheral interweaves two futures - pre-apocalypse USA and post-apocalypse London - to tell a story which gets right to heart of the way we live now. Soon after she gets word that it isn't a game after all - the future she saw is all too real, she's the only witness to a murder and someone from that unreal tomorrow now wants her dead.
One night, working a game set in a futuristic but puzzlingly empty London, she sees a death that's unnervingly vivid. In the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players. The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer
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