{"id":58801,"date":"2022-09-08T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=997e46e6b5383b329f5dc4dc911d8c51"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:59:50","slug":"william-gibsons-novel-comes-to-vivid-life-in-first-teaser-for-the-peripheral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58801","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson\u2019s novel comes to vivid life in first teaser for The Peripheral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1879607\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oooh, Amazon lucre adapting _The Peripheral_?  This will be fun.<\/div><div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><div type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSaWHbCSmRI?start=0&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/div><p>Prime Video's new sci-fi series <em>The Peripheral<\/em> is based on William Gibson's novel. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>A young woman struggling to hold it together in small-town America finds herself witness to what may or may not be a murder in the first teaser for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Peripheral_(TV_series)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Peripheral<\/em><\/a>, a new Prime Video series based on William Gibson's <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Peripheral\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014 novel<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Spoilers for the novel below.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The novel is in many ways vintage Gibson: a bleak, dystopian future world chock-full of big thematic ideas, visionary technology, and its own slang terminology. The reader is plunged into this setting and must acclimate accordingly; Gibson isn't interested in presenting everything to us on a silver platter. But that initial effort pays off as the novel evolves into an action-packed cyberpunk thriller.<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1879607#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1879607&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Video&#8217;s new sci-fi series The Peripheral is based on William Gibson&#8217;s novel.<br \/>\nA young w&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}