This episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is brought to you by William Gibson's new novel

Agency, a follow-up to his New York Times best-selling novel The Peripheral, which Cori Dr. O'Call Spectacular,

a piece of trenchant far future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of

Neuromancer. Learn more over at William Gibson Books.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 397 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is David L Craddock. to Mortal Koynop Classics invaded the Living Room,

and's breakout, how the Apple II launched the PC Gaming Revolution.

He's also the author of the young adult fantasy novel Heritage,

the first book in the Gerriton Chronicles. And and will be speaking with him today about his book

Stay a while and listen about the history of Diablo and rocket jump about the

history of quake. And today's show is brought to you by Agency, the new novel by William Gibson.

And here's a description of the book. It says,

Verity Jane, Gifted App Whisper, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product, a digital assistant, accessed through

a pair of ordinary looking glasses.

Unis, the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past and to can a grasp of combat strategy.

Realizing that her cryptic new employers don't yet know how powerful and valuable UNICE is, Verity

instinctively decides that it's best they don't.

Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different timeline entirely,

Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers,

survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot.

His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lobeer, can look into alternate paths and nudge their ultimate directions.

Verity and Eunice are her current project.

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