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  • Holy Fire

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus ( Time).In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy—if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and ... Read more

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  • Schismatrix Plus

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    The Nebula-nominated novel of "a brave new world of nearly constant future shock"—plus all the short fiction of the Shaper/Mechanist universe ( The Washington Post).Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre's remarkable offspring—cyberpunk—Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been tainted by a virulent ... Read more

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  • Heavy Weather

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine.The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by climate change. But even ... Read more

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  • The Hacker Crackdown

    Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    The bestselling cyberpunk author "has produced by far the most stylish report from the computer outlaw culture since Steven Levy's Hackers" ( Publishers Weekly).Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T's long-distance switching system to corporate ... Read more

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  • Islands in the Net

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    In a near-future new age of corporate control, hacker mercenaries, and electronic terrorism, a public relations executive on the rise finds herself caught in the violent epicenter of a data warTwo decades into the twenty-first century, the world's nations are becoming irrelevant. Corporations are the true global powers, with information the most valuable currency, while the smaller island nations ... Read more

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  • Ascendancies

    The Best of Bruce Sterling

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists "Sunken Garden" and "Dori Bangs."Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as "one of America's best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Sterling's abilities are on full display ... Read more

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  • The Artificial Kid

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    In a future world of rampant inequality, a martial-arts video star finds himself in a real fight for survival, in this novel by the author of Schismatrix.Founded centuries ago by the enigmatic genius Moses Moses, the planet Reverie can either be heaven or hell, depending on whether you live on or above it. The superrich orbit the world in luxury abodes, keeping their sometimes-lethal ennui at bay ... Read more

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  • Involution Ocean

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves.The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse's addiction to the substance that made him a dealer and forced ... Read more

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  • The Zenith Angle

    A Novel

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    **“Gleeful, shrewd, speculative, cynical, closely observed . . . The Zenith Angle offers wisdom and solace, thrills and laughter.”—The Washington Post“Compelling and important . . . A darkly comic fable of info-war, the black budget, über-geek idealism, and the politics of Homeland Insecurity.”—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition**Pioneering computer wizard Derek “Van” Vandeveer has been ... Read more

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  • The Caryatids

    A Novel

    by Bruce Sterling ...
    Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time traveler. Now, with The Caryatids, Sterling has written a stunning ... Read more

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  • The Difference Engine

    A Novel

    by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling ...
    1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future:Sybil Gerard—a fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitatorEdward “Leviathan” ... Read more

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  • Cyberpunk

    by William Gibson, Mark Teppo, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Jonathan Lethem, Benjamin Parzybok, Kim Stanley Robinson, David Marusek, Paul Tremblay, Cat Rambo, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Greg Bear, Rudy Rucker, James Patrick Kelly, John Shirley, Daniel H. Wilson, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow ...
    Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a ... Read more

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