Talk:The Peripheral

Glossary

Is it appropriate to add a glossary to this article? It would be as helpful to readers as the Plot. Example jargon used in the book: "polt", "klepty", "stub". Meonkeys (talk) 16:51, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Plot summary errors on this

What evidence is there in the novel to suggest Wilf Netherton is a simulation or that the Fishers’ world is too? It’s pretty clear that any ‘stub’ (including the Fishers’) is the real past that became an alternate timeline the second any ‘continua enthusiast’ from the Lev/ Lowbeer/ Netherton present make contact. 150.143.79.90 (talk) 00:03, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Minor plot summary error

The plot description in this article states:

    ”Inhabitants of Flynne's time are able to access the early 22nd century of Zubov and Netherton via headsets built using a 3D printer and technological knowhow passed back to them from the 22nd century. These headsets allow the wearer's consciousness to inhabit and control a 'peripheral' a.k.a. an artificial physical human body in the 22nd century.”

But Flynne’s first two visits to the future involve piloting the drones (not sure whether drones would be called peripherals) to chase paparazzi away. She did this using her phone without a headset, described on page 9) and by assumption so would have Burton.

She only needed the headset to access the artificial human body. They began printing the headset on page 151. She first uses it on page 175.

The exchange of data between the stub and the future only incidentally allows control of the artificial human bodies which were already in common usage to avoid the necessity of travel. The novel even refers to a short-term demand-driven scarcity of them because they were rented to opera attendees.

I was going to edit the article myself but assumed the original author of the plot summary would prefer to do it themself.

Cheers! Eudionysis (talk) 17:49, 12 April 2023 (UTC)