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Continuing 📚 reviewed The Peripheral by William Gibson

William Gibson: The Peripheral (Paperback, 2015, Berkley Publishing Group, Berkley)

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade …

Fantastic world building, bizarre and deeply fulfilling.

5 stars

A really outstanding world, if you happened to watch the 'inspired-by' adaptation on tv, definitely read this for the full depth of the ideas.

Continuing 📚 reviewed Agency by William Gibson

William Gibson, William Gibson: Agency (Paperback, 2021, Berkley)

Cringe-worthy neoliberalism ruins otherwise great story.

2 stars

Edit out all the deeply awful neoliberalism, which feels straight out of CNN and MSNBC's worst reporting, and this would be a fantastic book. Hope for such a version in the future, or just ask an AI to do it for you.