02286cam a2200337 i 4500 424205272 TxAuBib 20200212120000.0 200108s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019023019 9781101986936 110198693X (OCoLC)1135323664 DLC eng rda FMG FMG OCLCO TxAuBib rda Gibson, William, 1948- Agency / William Gibson. First edition. 2020. New York : Berkley, 2020. 402 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sequel to: The Peripheral. ""One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Verity, realizing that her cryptic new employers don't yet know this, instinctively decides that it's best they don't. Meanwhile, a century ahead, in London, in a different timeline entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His employer, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice have become her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can't: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner. And something else too: the roles they both may play in it"-- Provided by publisher. 20200212. New business enterprises Fiction. Artificial intelligence Fiction. Science fiction. Suspense fiction.