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A review by julcoh
Agency by William Gibson
3.0
Look, Gibson is one of my favorite authors. Period. This one didn’t grab me like many of his previous novels.
I love the continued worldbuilding around the concept of stubs, the way inter-stub communication works, and the idea of Eunice as a hybrid AI building itself. The high-concept sci-fi bones of The Peripheral is still here, mixed with Gibsons’s speculative-fiction-of-the-present he’s honed since Pattern Recognition, but again this just didn’t grab me from a story perspective.
Without spoilers... I found some of the characters here absolutely overpowered, too much deus ex machina, and, ironically, a main character with very little agency of her own.
I love the continued worldbuilding around the concept of stubs, the way inter-stub communication works, and the idea of Eunice as a hybrid AI building itself. The high-concept sci-fi bones of The Peripheral is still here, mixed with Gibsons’s speculative-fiction-of-the-present he’s honed since Pattern Recognition, but again this just didn’t grab me from a story perspective.
Without spoilers... I found some of the characters here absolutely overpowered, too much deus ex machina, and, ironically, a main character with very little agency of her own.