Noam reviewed The peripheral by William Gibson (unspecified)
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, …
A halting creaky ride through a fascinating world
3 stars
A pile of very interesting ideas, strung together with badly paced and incoherent plotting. The sci Fi concepts are fun and the writing is spare and engaging, but neither the plot nor the characters quite come together enough.
Compared to the TV show, this book has better sci fi coherence but its representation of the near-future Appalachia is a lot worse and less fun.