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An Exclusive Excerpt from William Gibson’s New Novel, ‘Agency’

The celebrated sci-fi author returns with a novel set in an alternate — but familiar — timeline

William Gibson
Jan 16 · 9 min read

A sequel to 2014’s great novel The Peripheral, William Gibson’s Agency takes place in an another “stub” — the science fiction author’s term of art for a fledgling alternate timeline — wherein a

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William Gibson is the author of several New York Times bestselling novels. His next novel AGENCY will release on January 21, 2020 from Berkley.

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