I was thinking of ways to get The New Dark Light back to the 1970s and it made me think of The Peripheral - that could be a viable angle..!
True, I did add a hook for TNDL hacker collective... for whatever that might look like in the 1970s.
I'm not familiar with The Peripheral and now need to go look it up! (Did you mean the book or the tv series?)
Same thing I think - it’s a William Gibson story about an organisation using quantum tunnelling to interface with historical computer systems (in the past). Sharded realities etc - v good…!
