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Jackpot Series

This series delves into the profound questions of our existence through a gripping science fiction adventure across alternate realities. Immerse yourself in a world where the lines between future and present blur, and one wrong decision can alter humanity's fate forever. Follow characters as they unravel mysteries spanning past and future, confronting threats that defy comprehension. It's a thrilling exploration of consequence and possibility, urging reflection on our own time.

Agency
The Peripheral

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Peripheral

    • 484 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    Some time around the year 2020, in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child. At precisely the same moment, one hundred years in the future, a boy is remotely killed on the streets of London's great skyscrapers. The perpetrator remains anonymous. Interweaving two strange futures, from a ramshackle community of US army veterans, to the teeming masses of a mega city, The Peripheral tells the story of a brave new world of drones, outsourcing and kleptocracy, and of a crime that can only be solved across time. According to the Guardian, in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'. The Peripheral, which marks a return to the futurism of Neuromancer, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of Ender's Game, Looper and Source Code.

    The Peripheral1
    3.7

  2. Agency

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    San Francisco, 2017. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump's political ambitions were thwarted. London, 22nd century. Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. A shadowy start-up hires a young woman named Verity to test a new product- a 'cross-platform personal avatar' that was developed by the military as a form of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, characters in the distant future are using technological time travel to interfere with the election unfolding in 2017 . . .

    Agency2
    3.8