The Alcoholic: Wilf, who needs to have a whisky before doing anything difficult, and often has enough that he either doesn't do it at all or screws it up.After the End: Wilf's London, although the way he describes it, it wasn't so much a massive apocalypse as a slow worsening of everything, until people looked round and realised civilisation had collapsed while they weren't paying attention.Most of the female characters could be seen as this.

Action Girl: Flynne, Tacoma, Clovis, Lowbeer.

Flynne lives in the late 2030s/early 2040s and Wilf lives in the early 2130s. The Peripheral was adapted into a Prime Video TV series in 2022. The sequel, AGENCY, set in yet another Alternate History, was released in January 2020. This is Gibson's first sci-fi novel since All Tomorrow's Parties in 1999, and combines multiple genres such as time travel Science Fiction, cyberpunk/ postcyberpunk, Whodunnit, and the thriller.

To make matters more complicated, she witnesses a murder and now someone's trying to kill her in the past while she must connect to the future through a cyborg-like avatar called a peripheral to help her employers in the future solve the case. Set in multiple futures, it tells the story of Flynne Fisher, who takes a job piloting a security drone in what appears to be a video game, but is actually the future (or rather, the further future). The Peripheral is a 2014 Cyberpunk science fiction mystery-thriller novel written by William Gibson.

The peripheral book series