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Bruce Sterling
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A Good Old-Fashioned FutureA Good Old-Fashioned Future Newpbk 12 Apr 01
DistractionDistraction
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New Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk A Good Old-Fashioned Future
The visionary work of one of th most imaginative and insightful writers at work today; a landmark collection.
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty.
From The Littlest Jackal, a darkly hilarious thriller of mercenaries and gunrunners in Finland, to Taklamakan’s stark and haunting vision of a post-atomic netherworld, Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent SF being written today.
‘Makes the rest of near-future SF look toylike by comparison’ Locus
‘Brilliant… fascinating… exciting’ New York Times Book Review
‘A haunting and lyrical triumph’ Time
‘The short stories reprinted in this volume, all written and first published in the 1990’s, show Sterling at his best.’ New York Times Book Review
`Enough ideas to keep half a dozen lesser sf writers in work for the rest of their careers.’ Paul McAuley, Interzone
`Perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today.’ Time
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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Distraction
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Sex, science and spin… it’s your future and welcome to it.
2044, and the US is coming apart at the seams. The people live nomadic lives fuelled by cheap transport and oven cheaper communications. The new cold war is with the Dutch and mostly fought over the Net. The notion of central government is almost meaningless.
This is your future, Oscar Valparaiso's too - or it would be if he wasn't only half human and could sort out his love life . . .
'Sterling, our former cyberpunk Svengali, is back with a bang with this uproarious, provocative, thoughtful, often hilarious, sometimes inspired medium-future deconstruction of politics, science, economics, and the American Dream' Kirkus
'Distraction is Sterling's best novel to date' Analog
'Sterling hacks the future, and an elegant hack it is… this is a very smart, very funny book' Locus
'The world must and will develop into what Sterling has predicted' Science Fiction Age
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About The Author
Bruce Sterling is the author of the non-fiction boot The Hacker Crackdown, as well as the novels Holy Fire, Heavy Weather, Schismatrix, and Islands in the Net. With William Gibson he co?authored the acclaimed novel The Difference Engine. He also writes popular science and travel journalism. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Austin, Texas.

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N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • A Good Old-Fashioned Future ( 1999) New Gollancz Millenium Pbk Apr 01
  • Distraction Gollancz Millenium Pbk Sep 00

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