![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, members of the klept run them like computer games, or meddle like the old gods on Olympus, manipulating culture and geopolitics at will. They’re not exactly colonies – no money is made, no extractive capitalism takes place. These abandoned pasts, stubs of futures that might have been, are recognisable as versions of the world we live in now. Thanks to the development of massive quantum computing, these oligarchs, the history of whose money is deeply implicated with the history of gangster capital, amuse themselves in 2136 by discovering – or perhaps it might be better described as creating – their own precursors, the broken remains of alternate timelines. His most recent novel, 2014’s The Peripheral, introduced us to an ecopolitical disaster called “the jackpot” and a world subsequently run by the loose, shadowy group known as “the klept”. W illiam Gibson has never believed that science fiction predicts the future: it only ever talks about the present. ![]()
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