# Agency - Paperback

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by **William Gibson** (Author)

**AN INSTANT _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER**

"ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING"\* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the _New York Times_ bestselling _The Peripheral_.

William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term "cyberspace" and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel _Neuromancer_ in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that _The Peripheral_ is "spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of _Neuromancer_." Now Gibson is back with _Agency_\--a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events.

Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don't yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it's best they don't.

Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can't: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it.

\*_The Boston Globe_

### Author Biography

**William Gibson** lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. He is the author of _Neuromancer_, _Count Zero_, _Mona Lisa Overdrive_, _Burning Chrome_, _Virtual Light_, _Idoru_, _All Tomorrow's Parties_, _Pattern Recognition_, _Spook Country_, _Zero History_, _Distrust That Particular Flavor_, and _The Peripheral_.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** January 26, 2021

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Technological, Thrillers

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