Īmazon Studios version The Periphery It goes something like this: In the near future, Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz) is an average girl in a small town (probably somewhere in the Carolinas) who also happens to be pretty darn good at gaming. This review contains mild spoilers for Amazon’s adaptation of The Periphery. The book is considered one of Gibson’s more accessible and engaging works Sure, some of it hasn’t “held up” well over the years, but (and that’s a hill I’ll die on) cyberpunk and its offshoots aren’t genres destined to age like fine wines. It causes ordinary people to become enmeshed in powerful mysteries, discernible near-future technologies, and a characteristic barrage of Gibsonian terminology – klepts, polts, neoprims – which you pick up on the path of context and extrapolation. At first glance, the 2014 novel is poised to begin with a compelling premise of a tale of two worlds: rural, small-town America meets a post-apocalyptic, nanotechnology-powered London that follows the god-given European tradition of striving to colonize everything with it a profitable heartbeat. Of all William Gibson’s books – most of which are considered unadaptable for so many reasons – The Periphery is probably best suited for the screen as a series.
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