{"id":1146,"date":"2014-11-24T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:28:54","slug":"review-the-peripheral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2014\/11\/review-the-peripheral\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Peripheral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20821159\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1402651292m\/20821159.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Peripheral\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20821159\">The Peripheral<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9226\">William Gibson<\/a><br \/>\n My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1114347755\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Probably the book I&#8217;ve most loved from William Gibson since his earlier work &#8212; while not giving up on the, ahem, &#8220;different&#8221; style from his later work, he seems to have blended it with the futurism of his earlier 80&#8217;s work to make something entirely new and refreshing refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place in two different times completely (15-20 years in our future, and about 70 years on from that), the book features the plot device of time travel, but in a way that doesn&#8217;t break the laws of causality &#8212; each world is more like its own universe within the multiverse. The denizens from the earlier time are used as a form of labor &#8212; think Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk.<\/p>\n<p>While all of Gibson&#8217;s books seem to end suddenly, leaving you wishing they&#8217;d go on for just another 40-50 pages, this one is especially so &#8212; I haven&#8217;t been reading a book and wanting it *not* to end this bad in a long time. The world that Gibson has created is just so rich.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1114347755\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peripheral by William Gibson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Probably the book I&#8217;ve most loved from William Gibson since his earlier work &#8212; while not giving up on the, ahem, &#8220;different&#8221; style from his later work, he seems to have blended it with the futurism of his earlier 80&#8217;s work to make something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-life","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-iu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}