It depicts the lifestyle of some poor people in the future: Flynne Fisher (played by Chloe Grace Moretz), her Marine veteran brother, Burton (Jack Reynor), and their dying mother live in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2032.Īs their mother’s health deteriorates and the medical bills add up, Flynne and Burton make extra money playing simulations (Sims). In the novel, Gibson just drops you into this situation and you have to figure it out. One might go on to become reality, and the other might disappear as a truncated “stub” of time. But it’s a point in time where you can move backward, change the events of the past, and create two or more different branches of time. The book is set in 2032, in an age where it’s possible to move from one version of time to another. I got a look at the show, and I’ll have my thoughts soon. I happened to read it recently in a science fiction book club. Gibson’s The Peripheral debuted in 2014 with new ideas around immersive virtual reality, which makes you feel like you’ve been transported to another place and even another person’s body.
And this topic is one of those we’ll discuss with Stephenson himself at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 event in San Francisco on October 25-26.
Things we thought were sci-fi are becoming real. Why is this important? Well, science fiction, tech, and games are all converging.
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