Bruce Sterling Knihy

Bruce Sterling se ve výběru toho nejlepšího, co v rámci krátké fikce napsal, projevuje jako autor, který podle kritiky „bombarduje čtenáře jednou pozoruhodnou představou za druhou". Tempo jeho prací je zběsilé, někdy až přehnaně, vyžaduje si plnou pozornost, strhne a uvězní, zavalí vás, převálcuje, vyčerpá a na konci pustí s hlavou plnou doznívajících reakcí na tu erupci představivosti, jazykovou a nápaditou smršť, v níž se autor s téměř hmatatelným nadšením zabývá vzdálenou budoucností, kde se kyberneticky zdokonalení jedinci snaží porazit geneticky vyšlechtěné odpůrce v boji o odkaz lidstva. Jindy se podívá do budoucnosti blízké, aby se ponořil do světa, v němž se lidé, malincí ve srovnání s ekonomickými silami hýbajícími světem, bouří a hledají si vlastní cestu v nepřehledném vývoji směřujícím neustále kupředu jako neovladatelná, z kloubů vymknutá síla; a v přestávkách si odskočí do různých historických epoch, aby se ujistil, že vše je a vždycky bylo pomíjivé, nestálé a proměnlivé... Taková je tvorba Bruce Sterlinga, kterou máte nyní možnost poznat v celé její šíři.

Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.

Type a few words into Google and you can find a sushi restaurant, a movie theater, concert tickets or a new car. But if you misplace your car keys in your house, you still have to search the old-fashioned way: room by room, cushion by cushion, coat pocket by coat pocket. If Bruce Sterling is correct, though, one day you'll Google your keys. And your shoes. And your dog. This is the nascent "Internet of things" made possible by technology, including such items as radio frequency ID tags and traceable product life cycle management. That is where technology is going: to the interactive "spime," Sterling's term for objects that will arrive with data attached. In this visually arresting novella-sized essay, Sterling riffs on a number of scenarios, from customized-to-order cell phones to products that "know" how much carbon their construction required. His aphoristic prose seems at times like madness, but there's method in it: Sterling urges designers to make beautifully sustainable products rather than more proto-trash. getAbstract believes his book could reform your ideas about design and provide a stock of carbon-neutral insights you can deliver to your colleagues over a recyclable cup filled with shade-grown coffee

Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever.Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect. Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force roam the open spaces of Texas. And on their trail are the Storm Troupers: a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists who live to hack heavy weather -- to document it and spread the information as far as the digital networks will stretch, using virtual reality to explore the eye of the storm.Although it's incredibly addictive, this is no game. The Troupers' computer models suggest that soon an "F-6" will strike -- a tornado of an intensity that exceeds any existing scale; a storm so devastating that it may never stop. And they're going to be there when all hell breaks loose.

Fictional speculation on what would have happened if the computer had been invented in the 19th century.

Contents: Swarm (1982) Spider Rose (1982) Cicada Queen (1983) Sunken Gardens (1984) Twenty Evocations (1984) Green Days in Brunei (1985) Spook (1983) The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986) Telliamed (1984) The Little Magic Shop (1987) Flowers of Edo (1987) Dinner in Audoghast (1985)

Mia Ziemann, 93, may have the body and mind of a thirty year old, but she’s stuck with the secure but tedious existence of a rich old woman. In a world changed almost, but not quite beyond recognition by the unceasing march of technological progress, Mia isn’t unusual. But in Europe there is a movement away from the pragmatism of‘ most of those who have lived long and hard. In Prague, Mia confronts her boredom, her fear of entropy, and a whole new philosophy that challenges her very sense of self. Cover illustration by Holly Warburton

A journalist investigates the past, present, and future of computer crimes, as he attends a hacker convention, documents the extent of the computer crimes, and presents intriguing facts about hackers and their misdoings.