“It feels like a common thread between Gibson and Crichton,” Nolan said in a joint video interview with Joy, who is also his wife, and the director and executive producer Vincenzo Natali. As the creators and showrunners of HBO’s “Westworld,” based on the original film and screenplay by Michael Crichton, they were no strangers to sci-fi that barters in slippery notions of reality. Perhaps as important, it had as executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, whose production company, Kilter Films, developed the series through Amazon Studios. Smith (“A Simple Plan”), who created and oversaw the series - his first time as a series showrunner. “The Peripheral,” however, had the aid of Amazon’s deep pockets and of another acclaimed novelist, Scott B. 'Frightening, plausible.Reality is a loaded term in Gibson’s writing, which has made his stories notoriously difficult to adapt - his debut novel from 1984, “Neuromancer,” has alone seen multiple failed attempts.

'Mesmerizing, captivating, haunting' Sunday Times The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson's dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind - and what lies beyond. As Flynne searches to discover who has connected their worlds, and for what purpose, her presence here sets dangerous forces into motion.forces intent on destroying Flynne and her family in her own world. Someone in London, seventy years in the future, has found a way to open a door to Flynne's world. But this isn't like any game she's ever played before: Flynne begins to realize it isn't virtual reality.

One night she dons a headset and finds herself in futuristic London-a sleek and mysterious world, alluringly different from her own hardscrabble existence. 'Big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills' Guardianįlynne Fisher lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Discover the cult classic behind the major new TV adaption from the creators of Westworld, starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

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