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Regulator Presents: William Gibson

presented by The Regulator Bookshop

Fri Nov 7, 2014 @ 7:30 pm

| $30 gets in 2 and a book Get Tickets
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The Regulator Bookshop Presents:
William Gibson with The Peripheral

Yes, THE William Gibson.

Tickets are $30.00 each. One ticket admits TWO people and is good for ONE copy of his new book, The Peripheral.

The Regulator Bookshop proudly presents William Gibson at Motorco Music Hall Friday, November 7th. The New York Times-bestselling author and “god of speculative fiction” (New York Magazine) returns with The Peripheral, a high-tech thriller set partly in a decadent post-apocalyptic future. The “peripherals” of the title are quasi-human drone bodies, with full tactile feedback, operated from any distance, which have erased any lingering distinction between the Web and the world. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Gibson’s award-winning debut novel, Neuromancer, which predicted, via his original concept of “cyberspace”, much of today’s Internet.

Where Flynne and her brother Burton live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s supposed to do—a job Flynne didn’t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He’s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That’s all there is to it. He’s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.

William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Liza Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

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