![]() ![]() They’re not exactly colonies – no money is made, no extractive capitalism takes place. These abandoned pasts, stubs of futures that might have been, are recognisable as versions of the world we live in now. ![]() ![]() Thanks to the development of massive quantum computing, these oligarchs, the history of whose money is deeply implicated with the history of gangster capital, amuse themselves in 2136 by discovering – or perhaps it might be better described as creating – their own precursors, the broken remains of alternate timelines. His most recent novel, 2014’s The Peripheral, introduced us to an ecopolitical disaster called “the jackpot” and a world subsequently run by the loose, shadowy group known as “the klept”. W illiam Gibson has never believed that science fiction predicts the future: it only ever talks about the present. ![]()
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