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This isn't due until October 22, 2022, but it looks like it is has th feel of "The Thirteenth Floor". One of my favorites.

THE PERIPHERAL Official Trailer (2022)

VR action, soldier hiveminds, advanced military bio-haptic technology, mind-body communication devices, synthetic animals, post-apocalyptic London..produced by the Westworld creators so similar vibes, really enjoying it so far.

Came across the director on twitter and he was also the director for "Cube" (1997) His website: 

Archive of rare materials from film and television projects

His ideas for the AI visual effects in The Peripheral originated from Midjourney.

William Gibson on writing sci-fi as the world takes a dystopian dive

Is ours the darkest timeline? William Gibson thinks it might be.

Gibson’s last book, The Peripheral, introduced the “Jackpot”, a cascade of global catastrophes that wipes out much of the human race, along with an ingenious take on time travel that allows digital communication – including telepresence – across alternate timelines. Its central character, Wilf, lives in post-Jackpot London: he becomes entangled in the aftermath of a murder whose only witness lives in an alternate, run-down America. Gibson’s new book, Agency, returns to the same fictional setting – but this time, one of the timelines is ours.

Agency comes six years after The Peripheral, an unusually long interval for Gibson. In 2016, he was writing a book set in the very near future, but the present caught up with him. “I woke up after the presidential election and realised the world I had set the book in no longer existed,” he says. Fearing he would have to abandon his draft completely, Gibson tried to introduce characters from earlier works. That didn’t work (Hubertus Bigend, the arty puppet-master of Gibson’s Pattern Recognition trilogy, “wouldn’t even speak to me”, he says) but as Trump’s presidency lurched from one fiasco to another, he began to feel as if the real world had itself strayed from the way things “ought” to be: as it if it was one of his fictional stubs.

“That caused me to glimpse the book I had been writing as a stub of the 22nd century London of The Peripheral,” he explains. In other words, the real world many of us had been expecting at the start of 2016 had ended up as a fictional alternate reality in Agency. What’s more, Agency’s other major timeline – the post-Jackpot future – seems more like the actual future we’re headed towards: an oligarch world depopulated and devastated by disease and disaster.

Sounds like Gibson’s new book, "Agency" is another good sci-fi techno thriller.