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* {{Nanomachines}}: The reason why Wilf's London is so clean and efficient, and that society was able to recover from the Jackpot was the development of the 'Assemblers', nanobots that can complete huge architectural projects, reshape buildings at their owners' will, pass solid objects, [[{{Intangibility}} including people]] through each other, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick consume a human body down to the bone, leaving the surroundings untouched]].
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* BlackBox: Nobody has any idea of how the tech works - the only lead is that the actual server controlling the equipment is located in China.
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* BlackBox: Nobody has ''None'' of the characters have any idea of how the tech technology allowing communication with the past actually works - the only lead is that the actual server controlling the equipment is located in China.
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* CosyCatastrophe: The Jackpot was this for some, hence the name: while crop failures, war, and natural disasters wiped out 80% of the population, the rich kept getting richer. [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety And richer]]. [[RuleOfThree And richer.]]
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Twice. Flynne lives in the late 2030s/early 2040s and Wilf lives in the late 2100s/early 2110s.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Twice. Flynne lives in the late 2030s/early 2040s and Wilf lives in the late 2100s/early 2110s.early 2130s.
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This is Gibson's first sci-fi novel since ''Literature/AllTomorrowsParties'' in 1999, and [[GenreBlending combines multiple genres]] such as [[TimeTravel time travel]] [[ScienceFiction science fiction]], [[CyberPunk cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk postcyberpunk]], {{Whodunnit}}, and the {{thriller}}. The sequel, ''[[Literature/{{Agency}}]]'', ''Literature/{{Agency}}'', set in yet another AlternateHistory, was released in January 2020.
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This is Gibson's first sci-fi novel since ''Literature/AllTomorrowsParties'' in 1999, and [[GenreBlending combines multiple genres]] such as [[TimeTravel time travel]] [[ScienceFiction science fiction]], [[CyberPunk cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk postcyberpunk]], {{Whodunnit}}, and the {{thriller}}. The sequel, ''Agency'', ''[[Literature/{{Agency}}]]'', set in yet another AlternateHistory, was released in January 2020.
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This is Gibson's first sci-fi novel since ''Literature/AllTomorrowsParties'' in 1999, and [[GenreBlending combines multiple genres]] such as [[TimeTravel time travel]] [[ScienceFiction science fiction]], [[CyberPunk cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk postcyberpunk]], {{Whodunnit}}, and the {{thriller}}. A planned AlternateHistory sequel is slated for The sequel, ''Agency'', set in yet another AlternateHistory, was released in January 2020.
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* MorphWeapon: Lowbeer has one; a golden baton of office that retracts into what looks like a lipstick case like an advanced version of a collapsible truncheon, and can also be a gun in emergencies.
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* AfterTheEnd: Wilf's London, although the way he describes it, it wasn't so much a massive apocalypse as a slow worsening of everything, until people looked round and realised civilisation had collapsed while they weren't paying attention.
* TheAlcoholic: Wilf, who needs to have a whisky before doing anything difficult, and often has enough that he either doesn't do it at all or screws it up. Lev has a smart lock on his bar that will let anyone use it except Wilf.
* TheAlcoholic: Wilf, who needs to have a whisky before doing anything difficult, and often has enough that he either doesn't do it at all or screws it up. Lev has a smart lock on his bar that will let anyone use it except Wilf.
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* MegaCorp: Hefty Mart, which includes the Hefty Pal online payment system, Hefty Clips hairdresers and so on. When Flynne is told [[spoiler: she now owns it]], she thinks it's like being told someone bought the moon.
* MerchantPrince: Wilf's London has mostly abandoned actual government as being what caused the Jackpot. Instead, it's largely ruled by "the klept" (presumably short for "kleptocracy"); the families of those who survived the Jackpot by being the most ruthless {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. Lev's family is old klept, although the only reason Wilf is comfortable around him is that he's not personally very good at it.
* MerchantPrince: Wilf's London has mostly abandoned actual government as being what caused the Jackpot. Instead, it's largely ruled by "the klept" (presumably short for "kleptocracy"); the families of those who survived the Jackpot by being the most ruthless {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. Lev's family is old klept, although the only reason Wilf is comfortable around him is that he's not personally very good at it.
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* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Triumvirate]]: BigBadTriumvirate: [[spoiler: Hamed al-Habib, Sir Henry, and Daedra West.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: Burton and Conner. Burton needs an exoskeleton to walk comfortably, while Conner is quadriplegic. Both are still expert combatants and fend up multiple assassination attempts and successfully assault a drug compound.
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* AlternateUniverse: The technology allows for electronic signals to be sent and received from very close alternate universes.
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* AlternateUniverse: The technology allows for electronic signals to be sent and received from very close alternate universes.
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* CrapsackWorld: Flynne's time period is actually not too long before an actual apocalyptic event, so this is to be expected. Nearing the mid-21st century, the local economy is pretty much reliant on illegal drug manufacture. Ironically, Wilf's post-apocalyptic London is actually quite nice, since there are lots of opportunities for anyone who survived the Jackpot, given that 80% of humans died. Everything is clean and eco-friendly, as well as high-tech.
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* CrapsackWorld: Flynne's time period is actually not too long before an actual apocalyptic event, so this is to be expected. Nearing the mid-21st century, the local economy is pretty much reliant on illegal drug manufacture. Ironically, Wilf's post-apocalyptic London is actually quite nice, since there are lots of opportunities for anyone who survived the Jackpot, given that 80% of humans died. [[SolarPunk Everything is clean and eco-friendly, eco-friendly]], as well as high-tech.
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* CrapsackWorld: Flynne's time period is actually not too long before an actual apocalyptic event, so this is to be expected. Nearing the mid-21st century, the local economy is pretty much reliant on illegal drug manufacture. Ironically, Wilf's post-apocalyptic London is actually quite nice, since there are lots of opportunities for anyone who survived the Jackpot, given that 80% of humans died. Every Everything is clean and eco-friendly, as well as high-tech.
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* CrapsackWorld: Flynne's time period is actually not too long before an actual apocalyptic event, so this is to be expected. Nearing the mid-21st century, the U.S.'s local economy is pretty much reliant on illegal drug manufacture. Ironically, Wilf's post-apocalyptic London is actually quite nice, since there are lots of opportunities for anyone who survived the Jackpot, given that 80% of humans died. Every is clean and eco-friendly, as well as high-tech.
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Hamed, Daedra, and Sir Henry, the city Remembrancer.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Hamed al-Habib, the boss patcher, was really just using a peripheral and had Daedra "kill" him to fake his death. He was really the man on the balcony who killed Aelita and has been involved in the plot all along.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Hamed al-Habib, the boss patcher, was really just using a peripheral and had Daedra "kill" him to fake his death. He was really the man on the balcony who killed Aelita and has been involved in the plot all along.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Pretty much anyone eaten up by Assembler nanobots. [[spoiler:Aelita gets her face eaten in by them as she gets devoured from the inside out when she is murdered]]. And towards the end, [[spoiler:Hamed and Sir Henry both get eaten down to the bone by the nanobots.]]
* [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk Postcyberpunk]]: It is a William Gibson novel after all. This novel has a unique rural cyberpunk setting in Flynne's era, where she lives in a CrapsackWorld of a United States shortly before an apocalyptic event known as the Jackpot occurs. Ironically, Wilf Netherton's post-apocalyptic London isn't a crapsack world and is much more PostCyberPunk, with a clean, eco-friendly, advanced world at the dawn of the 22nd century... However, the global population has been significantly reduced by the Jackpot, so there aren't many crowds. The story itself is a noir-like murder mystery involving shadowy characters.
* FemmeFatale: Daedra West.
* TheFutureIsNoir: More so for Flynne's rural near-future America than Wilf's high-tech glitzy 22nd century London, but in true noir fashion, Wilf is an alcoholic with a FemmeFatale ex-girlfriend and spends most of the novel coming to terms with the hatred for his era.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Hamed and Sir Henry had Aelita murdered by letting nanobots eat her alive, so it's rather fitting when they meet a similar fate at the end of the novel]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Pretty much anyone eaten up by Assembler nanobots. [[spoiler:Aelita gets her face eaten in by them as she gets devoured from the inside out when she is murdered]]. And towards the end, [[spoiler:Hamed and Sir Henry both get eaten down to the bone by the nanobots.]]
* [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk Postcyberpunk]]: It is a William Gibson novel after all. This novel has a unique rural cyberpunk setting in Flynne's era, where she lives in a CrapsackWorld of a United States shortly before an apocalyptic event known as the Jackpot occurs. Ironically, Wilf Netherton's post-apocalyptic London isn't a crapsack world and is much more PostCyberPunk, with a clean, eco-friendly, advanced world at the dawn of the 22nd century... However, the global population has been significantly reduced by the Jackpot, so there aren't many crowds. The story itself is a noir-like murder mystery involving shadowy characters.
* FemmeFatale: Daedra West.
* TheFutureIsNoir: More so for Flynne's rural near-future America than Wilf's high-tech glitzy 22nd century London, but in true noir fashion, Wilf is an alcoholic with a FemmeFatale ex-girlfriend and spends most of the novel coming to terms with the hatred for his era.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Hamed and Sir Henry had Aelita murdered by letting nanobots eat her alive, so it's rather fitting when they meet a similar fate at the end of the novel]].
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* ActionGirl: Flynne, Tacoma, Clovis, Lowbeer... Most of the female characters could be seen as this.
* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Triumvirate]]: [[spoiler: Hamed al-Habib, Sir Henry, and Daedra West.]]
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* ActionGirl: Flynne, Tacoma, Clovis, Lowbeer... Most of the female characters could be seen as this.
* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Triumvirate]]: [[spoiler: Hamed al-Habib, Sir Henry, and Daedra West.]]
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''The Peripheral'' is a 2014 CyberPunk science fiction mystery-thriller novel written by Creator/WilliamGibson. Set in multiple futures, it tells the story of Flynne Fisher, who takes a job piloting a security drone in what appears to be a video game, but is actually the future (or rather, the ''further'' future). To make matters more complicated, she witnesses a murder and now someone's trying to kill her in the past while she must connect to the future through a cyborg-like avatar called a peripheral to help her employers in the future solve the case. [[MindScrew It's a lot]].
This is Gibson's first sci-fi novel since ''[[Literature/BridgeTrilogy All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' in 1999, and [[GenreBlending combines multiple genres]] such as [[TimeTravel time travel]] [[ScienceFiction science fiction]], [[CyberPunk cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk postcyberpunk]], {{Whodunnit}}, and the {{thriller}}.
This is Gibson's first sci-fi novel since ''[[Literature/BridgeTrilogy All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' in 1999, and [[GenreBlending combines multiple genres]] such as [[TimeTravel time travel]] [[ScienceFiction science fiction]], [[CyberPunk cyberpunk]]/[[PostCyberPunk postcyberpunk]], {{Whodunnit}}, and the {{thriller}}.
