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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
San Francisco, 2017. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened - and Verity Jane's got herself a new job. They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid - which is just...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Though primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years William Gibson has also built up a reputation as an entertaining and insightful critic of contemporary culture. He is widely credited with having described the internet and cyberspace before any such things existed.
Author
Series
Thomlinson Library volume 2082
Publisher
printed for William Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row
Pub. Date
1720
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Some time around the year 2020, in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child. At precisely the same moment, one hundred years in the future, a boy is remotely killed on the streets of London's great skyscrapers. The perpetrator remains anonymous. Interweaving two strange futures, from a ramshackle community of US army veterans, to the teeming...
Author
Series
Thomlinson Library volume 2143
Publisher
William Pickering, 177, Piccadilly; Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Robert Robinson, Pilgrim-Street
Pub. Date
1848
Language
English