Agency (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

Agency (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) by Gibson, William. library edition. ISBN: 9781432877521.

"Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and acanny grasp of combat strategy. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice cant: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it"--