A third group, introduced in Agency, are in San Francisco, in 2017. Another set of characters introduced in The Peripheral live in an unnamed rural American county before the middle of the 21st century, that resembles Gibson's ancestral home of Whythe County, Virginia. One set of characters appearing in The Peripheral and Agency live in 22nd century London, when scientific advancements are lessening the severity of the jackpot. The fictional "jackpot" described in the novels is an "androgenic, systemic, multiplex" cluster of environmental, medical and economic crises that begins to emerge in the present day and eventually reduces world population by 80 percent over the second half of the 21st century. William Gibson's in-progress Jackpot trilogy of science fiction/mystery thriller novels includes The Peripheral (2014) and Agency (2020).
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