The peripheral / William Gibson.
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TextPublisher: London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 484 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670921560 (paperback)Subject(s): Dystopias -- Fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | Computer software -- Testing -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Drug traffic -- Fiction | Veterans -- Fiction | Video games -- Fiction | Implants, Artificial -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction. | Suspense fiction. DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That's all there is to it. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.
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Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That's all there is to it. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.
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