"Very recent hiredness was its own liminal state, Verity reminded herself, on the crowded Montgomery BART platform, waiting for a train to Sixteenth and Mission."
- William Gibson, Agency.
As always, Gibson's ideas are fascinating. A sequel of sorts to his 2014 novel The Peripheral, Agency muses on the effects of AI, virtual reality, time travel, politics, and many more. He has a knack of taking complicated ideas and teasing out how they might play out in real life. That part of the book is fascinating.
Unfortunately, the sad truth is that Agency is boring. Neither of the protagonists seem to actually do anything; they just observe things that are done to or around them. The chapters are divided evenly between the two characters and because they are in different times and places, most chapters start off by describing what we just read in the previous chapter. I have high hopes that Gibson will regain his form, but I just can't recommend this book.
