William Gibson changed his upcoming sci-fi novel after the results of the presidential election
William Gibson described November 9th, the day after the 2016 presidential election, as a “really weird and powerful sensation.” Like many in the science fiction community, he had anticipated that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would beat her opponent Donald Trump. In the months after Trump was elected, he began to explore his feelings as he wrote his next novel, Agency, according to The New York Times.
Agency is set to be released on January 16th, 2018, and it will share a world with Gibson’s 2014 book The Peripheral, which is set between two futures: one in the 22nd century, the other in the near future. Like The Peripheral, Agency will involve a form of time travel, and will play out in a pair of alternate futures: one set in a…
