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Gibson, William, 1948-2020
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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 as well since suddenly some bad people are after Verity. Meanwhile, in a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is tasked by all-seeing policewoman Ainsley Lowbeer with interfering in the alternative past in which Verity and Eunice exist. It appears something nasty is about to happen there - and fixing it will require not only Eunice's unique human-AI skillset but also a little help from the future.
Main title:
Agency / William Gibson.
Author:
Imprint:
Great Britain : Viking, 2020.
Collation:
402 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780241237212 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6SFF
LC class:
PS3557.I2264
Local class:
SFFICAFSFF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2592554