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. Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump’s political ambitions were thwarted. In William Gibson’s first novel since 2014’s New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted “app-whisperer,” hired to beta test a mysterious new product, finds her life endangered by her relationship with her surprisingly street-smart and combat-savvy “digital assistant.” A thrilling dystopian novel imagining a world where Trump lost the election, from the master of science fiction
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