内容简介
William Gibson returns with his first novel since 20 1 0 s" New York Times" bestselling "Zero History."
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live , jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there s a job he s supposed to do a job Flynne didn t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple : work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That s all there is to it. He s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn t what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder."
威廉．吉布森（William Gibson）
以打字機創作《神經喚術士》（Neuromancer），卻寫下、定義了 科幻 文學的「電馭叛客」（Cyberpunk）類型，並創造「網路空間」（Cyber Space）一詞，更拿下科幻文學界三大獎：雨果獎、星雲獎與菲利普狄克獎，創下至今無人打破的紀錄，更暢銷六百多萬冊。
在尚且無人理解電腦或虛擬實境的時代，他的小說打造出近未來的驚人景象。除去躍進未來，他更與另一位知名大師布魯斯．史特林（Bruce Sterling）合作，回溯工業 革命 時電腦的前身，寫下小說《差分機》（The Difference Engine）。至此算是完全奠定他的大師地位。2014年，他跳脫舊系列，以電玩遊戲的背景創作全新小說，以硬派筆法將 政治 權謀融入懸疑殺人，並放置在一個絕對科幻的架空未來，佐以穿梭時間的情節，讓讀者墜入他筆下炫麗的科幻 世界 ...
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