TV: The Peripheral (Season 1)
An odd takeaway from season one of The Peripheral: while recognizably based on a William Gibson novel, it doesn’t feel especially Gibsonian. Perhaps that’s the influence of producers Lisa Joy …
Pressing Reset in 2022
You wouldn’t know it from reading previous year-end whinges on this blog, but I love this time of year. Sure, it’s partly because my job mercifully shuts down for the …
Film: Kimi
For a guy who “retired” in 2013, Steven Soderbergh sure is prolific. After coming out of retirement in 2017, he has released seven films in the last six years, and …
Novel: Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson can generally be relied upon to provide an entertaining, accessible read, and Last Year (2016) is another case in point: a minor work in his oeuvre, perhaps, …
Novel: Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett
It’s quite possible L.X. Beckett’s Gamechanger (2019) was exactly the novel I needed to be reading at this moment in history. As the coronavirus steers us ever deeper into a …
Novel: Agency by William Gibson
William Gibson’s The Peripheral showed the author at his most dazzling and inventive, a dense, high-concept science fiction thriller set across multiple timelines. Its worthy sequel, Agency, is a crafty …
Comics Roundup 2019
The glut of superhero content in movies and TV has diminished my bandwidth for comic books lately, but I still dip my toes in now and then. My most recent …
Novel: Persona by Genevieve Valentine
Genevieve Valentine’s Persona (2015) falls so squarely in my reading wheelhouse, it’s almost ridiculous. This near-future thriller takes us to Paris, where Suyana Supaki—the diplomatic “Face” of the United Amazonian …
Novel: The Peripheral by William Gibson
I’m pretty sure when William Gibson sits down to start a new novel, he says, out loud, “And now, for my next trick…” The Blue Ant trilogy must have been …
Novel: Zero History by William Gibson
I went into William Gibson’s Zero History (2010) with high expectations. It closes the Blue Ant trilogy of quasi-SF corporate espionage thrillers, following on the heels of two novels I …