The novel “The Peripheral” by William Gibson was published for the first time in 2014.

Life is hard for Flynne Fisher and her brother Burton in the rural town where they live, where many people make money by producing synthetic drugs. Burton suffered neurological damage while serving in the Marines and has some veteran benefits but can work for the producer of a virtual world that reproduces a futuristic London. When Flynne takes over for him, she realizes that in that virtual world there’s much more than she expected.

Wilf Netherton works with celebrities in post-apocalyptic London at the end of the 21st century, where the not rich have little chance of surviving. Among the services he offers, the trendiest is a connection with the past but when something happens to a client, things become very complicated since the only person who has an idea of ​​what happened is in the past.