Just come back to this having sparked it off! Having just finished re-reading one of the Culture books, I’m now re-reading The Periferal, just to reacquaint myself with the story. As a couple of people have said, there’s big chunks taken out, but in all honesty, it would have probably made it just as confusing, because events would take place much more slowly, and through a much longer series. I’ve not seen anything with Chloë in before, but she’s perfect as Flynn, and Burton and the other Haptic Reconn guys are pretty much as I’d imagined them. As are those in ‘Future London’, Ash in particular, with her tattoos and the weird ‘language’ she shares with Ossian, and they’ve even got her eyes right, which most wouldn’t notice. Lowbeer is a great bit of casting, too.
Be nice to hope it’s been successful enough for Agency to follow on.
’Course, then we’ll have to wait for Gibson to finish book three… (drums fingers…)