(((I always enjoy reading these Bruce Sterling plot summaries. I mean, just one
of 'em is plenty weird, but you hit five in a row and it's like "What the hell.
He's writing what, exactly? Is that even 'writing'? Those are books, right?")))
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Bruce Sterling Megapost - 5 Books
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Audio BooksMay 21st, 2009admin
Hey all,
Bruce Sterling is one of the icons of modern SciFi. While one of those behind the Cyberpunk movement of the 80’s sterling casts his net across a wider range of concerns, addressing through ScifFi environmental, legal, governmental, genetics and democratic issues.
Enjoy. Thanks, as always, appreciated.
Links;
Distraction;
from Amazon;
Politics is the art of the possible, the “doable”, as Sterling’s skewed hero, Oscar Valparaiso, keeps calling his wild improvised plans as if saying the word made them so. Oscar’s usually successful schemes are as cobbled together as his own genetics–Oscar is not quite human. Investigating a genetic research facility for a Senate committee, he finds a potential power base, and an enemy worth his attention–the Governor of Louisiana has taken to conquering federal facilities using gangs of the homeless as his deniable mercenaries, and his interest in biotech makes the genetically anomalous Oscar, and the scientist he has fallen for, attractive acquisitions. Having a senator he has just help get elected go stark raving mad, and finding himself on the Net-wide hit list of every nut with a grudge, are the sort of things that Oscar copes with all the time–love and other altered states of consciousness are a bit more of a problem. Endless witty extrapolations of social and scientific paradoxes and a constant cheeky elaboration of already convoluted plot lines give this the brio of Sterling’s best short fiction–if there is a more entertaining near-future SF novel this year, we will be in luck.
http://rapidshare.com/files/223968139/Distraction.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/223966900/Distraction.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/223972633/Distraction.part3.rar
Heavy Weather:
from Amazon:
Everybody talks about the weather; but Jane Unger and her band of Storm Troupers hack the weather. In the late 2030s, as a legacy of the greenhouse effect, millions of people have died or been displaced due to heavy weather. A renegade band of meteorologists and computer experts, the Storm Troupe, prowls the Texas plains, chasing funnel clouds, gathering data, and waiting for the meteorological equivalent of the Big One: an F-6 tornado, a twister so big that it could mean the end of civilization. Using flying robots, cross-terrain vehicles, virtual reality, and raw courage, the Troupe risks life and limb for the sake of scientific knowledge (and for the attendant thrills). Into the somewhat unstable society of the Troupe comes Jane’s younger brother Alex, professional invalid and family ne’er-do-well. To everyone’s astonishment, Alex thrives and brings a perspective on loyalty, family, and sacrifice that helps pull the Troupe into the solid team they will need to be if they are to survive an F-6. Lucid and tremendously entertaining. Sterling (The Hacker Crackdown, 1992, etc.) shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. A cyberpunk winner.
http://rapidshare.com/files/223982252/Heavy_Weather.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/223979692/Heavy_Weather.part2.rar
Holy Fire:
from Amazon;
Cyberpunk gum Sterling’s latest (Heavy Weather, 1994, etc.) is set in a 2095 whose pervasive but light-handed government allows everyone to do mostly as he or she pleases - food, shelter, education, health, and transportation are free - although we’re given no indication of how this situation came to be, or how it all works. “Post-humans” - ancient people rejuvenated by advanced techniques - pretty much run things; religious inspiration has been reduced to the effects of specific drugs; and it’s illegal to feed vegetables to kids - in California anyway. Ninety-year-old medical economist Mia Ziemann attends the death of a former lover who bequeaths her a virtual-reality palazzo and a talking dog named Plato, whom Mia rejects. She decides to undergo a dramatic new rejuvenation that will turn her into a beautiful 20-year-old woman. But the new Mia also has a rebuilt brain and, calling herself Maya, rips off the medical monitors her doctors have emplaced in order to evaluate her treatment, and disappears. She ends up in Prague, there plunging into a bohemian whirl of sex, philosophers, designer drugs, artists, cliques, programmers, immortals, and young aspirants.
http://rapidshare.com/files/224001749/Holy_Fire.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/223996304/Holy_Fire.part2.rar
Islands In The Net: from Amazon;
In the high-tech twenty-first century, a family of “corporate associates” descends into an underworld of data pirates and bootleg biogenetics to discover the identity of new-order terrorists.
http://rapidshare.com/files/224013158/Islands_in_the_Net.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/224016763/Islands_in_the_Net.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/224013898/Islands_in_the_Net.part3.rar
Zeitgeist:
from Amazon:
Pop culture wizard Lech “Leggy” Starlitz takes on the role of road manager for G-7, a hot female rock group, but his plans for success are threatened when his musicians turn political and his schemes spark an apocalyptic confrontation.
http://rapidshare.com/files/224032307/Zeitgeist.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/224022697/Zeitgeist.part2.rar
