The wait is almost over: William Gibson‘s highly-anticipated new novel, AGENCY is due to be published next week in the UK! A follow-up to Gibson’s acclaimed THE PERIPHERAL, it is due to be published by Viking. Here’s the synopsis…

San Francisco, 2017. Clinton’s in the White House, Brexit never happened — and Verity Jane’s got herself a new job.

They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer’, and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas.

Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she’s ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid — which is just as well since suddenly some bad people are after Verity.

Meanwhile, in a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is tasked by all-seeing policewoman Ainsley Lowbeer with interfering in the alternative past in which Verity and Eunice exist. It appears something nasty is about to happen there — and fixing it will require not only Eunice’s unique human-AI skillset but also a little help from the future.

A future which Verity soon fears may never be…

THE PERIPHERAL is published in the UK by Penguin. Gibson’s classic Neuromancer series is published in the UK by Gollancz — NEUROMANCER, COUNT ZERO, MONA LISA OVERDRIVE, and BURING CHROME.

Zeno represents William Gibson in the UK and Commonwealth, on behalf of Sterling Lord Literistic.