One of his early short stories, titled “Burning Chrome,” marked the first sci-fi reference to cyberspace. Gibson has been at the forefront of cyberpunk fiction for 40 years. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Smith discusses how his team created the screen version of “The Peripheral” - and how Gibson’s world of the future squares with the challenges of the present - in the latest episode of Fiction Science, a podcast that focuses on the intersection of science and technology with fiction and popular culture. And we felt like we were watching that happening in real time.”

“There’s something called ‘the Jackpot’ in the story, which involves a kind of multi-vector apocalypse. “We initiated our writers’ room three weeks before the pandemic hit and the country shut down,” series producer/writer Scott B.

Now the novel has been turned into a streaming-video series distributed on Amazon Prime Video, and it turns out that Gibson’s future is more like the present than it was when the book was published in 2014. The future may not be evenly distributed, but there’s a dystopia-inducing concentration of it in “The Peripheral,” a science-fiction novel by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson. (Photo by Sophie Mutevelian / Prime Video) Chloe Grace Moretz stars in “The Peripheral,” a video series based on William Gibson’s novel.

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