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A review by quantumdude111
Agency by William Gibson
2.0
What the heck was this? The premise was interesting and could have explored so many different topics but instead one timeline consists only of a pointless chase sequence (at some point I asked myself what the characters are even running away from. There was zero sense of urgency to the whole part) and the other, future post-apocalyptic, timeline was all just random people having conversations that had nothing to do with the plot.
Once I made through the 400 pages I sat there and wondered how Gibson managed to tell so little story on that amount of pages.
My conclusion is that this book was a lacklustre cash in or maybe mister Gibson got bored and started typing a novel. It leaves as unimpressed as his protagonist in 2017 is when people from an alternate timeline‘s future contact her through first a drone and then a transfer of her perception into a synthetic body („the peripheral“).
Once I made through the 400 pages I sat there and wondered how Gibson managed to tell so little story on that amount of pages.
My conclusion is that this book was a lacklustre cash in or maybe mister Gibson got bored and started typing a novel. It leaves as unimpressed as his protagonist in 2017 is when people from an alternate timeline‘s future contact her through first a drone and then a transfer of her perception into a synthetic body („the peripheral“).