Flynne Fisher scrapes by in rural America, assembling products in a 3D printshop and avoiding the drug trade that sustains her neighbors. Her brother Burton, damaged from military service, earns extra cash working in what looks like an online game. When he convinces Flynne to cover one of his shifts, she witnesses a crime that feels all too real.
Seventy years later, Wilf Netherton navigates a decadent London rebuilt after slow-motion apocalypse. For him, the past is entertainment—until Flynne crashes into his world.
Across timelines, their lives entwine in a conspiracy that bends reality, technology, and morality. William Gibson’s The Peripheral is a chilling sci-fi thriller that asks not just where the future is going, but who’s pulling its strings.
