The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)

by William Gibson

“Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.”

Gibson has a handle on the past few eras that is only rivalled by his understanding of the next dozen to come!

So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn’t happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming anyway.

Yep! That pretty much describes the world of 2023. No Climate Crisis and Covid can't kill.