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A somehow really boring corporate espionage technology thriller

Agency by William Gibson

November 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I have attempted William Gibson before; I did not enjoy Neuromancer at all. But Agency is considerably more recent and the premise made more sense to me. Basically, Verity is an app developer/tester who is brought on to field test “Eunice” an AI assistant of sorts, but Verity realizes there’s a good bit more to Eunice than anyone seems to have guessed, and soon mysterious corporate shenanigans are afoot, and there is some involvement from parallel universes, one of which has the technology to keep […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Agency, artificial intelligence, multi-verse, peripheral 2, Speculative Fiction, william gibson

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:91 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Agency, artificial intelligence, multi-verse, peripheral 2, Speculative Fiction, william gibson ·
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Very recent hiredness was its own liminal state, Verity reminded herself, on the Montgomery BART platform, waiting for a train to Sixteenth and Mission.

Agency by William Gibson

February 24, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So apparently this is a sequel or a prequel or both to the previous William Gibson novel The Peripheral, something I definitely did not know going in. I just put this on hold on Overdrive and starting listening. For the most part this wasn’t the most difficult challenge to follow the story because this series involves a lot of familiar science fiction tropes, and William Gibson tropes as well. So the novel begins with the “app whisperer” being assigned to a new AI app as part […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Agency, william gibson

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:87 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Agency, william gibson ·
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