Participants of the meeting will analyze the key ideas of Gibson's novel and its film adaptation, reflecting on the boundaries between the real and the virtual. The "Phoenix" book club invites you to a meeting dedicated to William Gibson's novel "Peripheral Devices." The classic of cyberpunk immerses the reader in a near future where 3D printing, virtual reality, and drones have become commonplace. However, the key theme of the book is not the technologies themselves, but the transformation of human perception and identity under their influence. At the meeting, participants will discuss science fiction as a tool for understanding modern reality. There will be an opportunity to talk not only about the plot of the novel but also about its adaptation, which many consider successful, though ambiguous. Philosophical questions raised in the text will also be touched upon: how do technologies affect the very essence of the human 'self,' and is there a boundary between the real and the digital? The conversation will be led by Georgy Snegiryov - the curator of the club, an expert in science fiction and future literature. Where to go in Moscow today, KudaGo knows.