Peripheral. Book 1

What happens when you find out that your whole world is just a whim, a toy in the hands of a spoiled rich man, and ordinary computer games and simulators have a much greater impact on reality than it seems? What is it - a touch of the future? And what is it, our future in general? What does an alternative London smell like, which in a certain sense may turn out to be more real than the one we are used to, and where have the people gone from its streets? Since the time when Flynn first sat down to play an imitation of a strange reality, the tangle of questions, guesses and stunning discoveries has only tightened, and the truth, as always, turns out to be even more incredible than the most bizarre assumptions.

The novel "Peripheral", which opens the author's new trilogy "Jackpot", can be conditionally attributed to the post-cyberpunk genre. The writer addresses the topic of parallel worlds and global catastrophes, starting from the disturbing trends of the present, reflecting on the near future and possible scenarios of the collapse, or rather, the global modification of our civilization.