New Releases by Bruce Sterling

Chronology to the Hacker Crackdown.

The classic anthology of cyberpunk stories, written by those who saw the revolution coming. With contributions from Jonathan Letham, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Greg Bear, Rudy Rucker, and many others

En 1990, la Caida del Sistema del dia de Martin Luther King, que afecto a la compania telefonica AT&T y dejo sin comunicaciones a millones de norteamericanos, desencadeno la persecucion y detencion de decenas de hackers, acusados de causar la hundimiento, que hasta ese momento era ignorados por la policia y las leyes. Bruce Sterling, autor de novelas como -El fuego sagrado-, -Cismatrix- o -La Maquina Diferencial-, y considerado uno de los mayores expertos en el genero del ciberpunk, nos ofrece en -La Caza de Hackers; Ley y Desorden en la Frontera Electronica- un apasionante reportaje desde el principio de la era de internet, los ordenadores personales, y la frontera electronica partiendo de la base de ese hecho inaudito. Con una entretenida prosa novelesca, Sterling nos lleva a conocer a todos los implicados en el asunto, desde los primeros activistas de internet hasta los policias encargados del caso, que cimento los pilares de lo que hoy es la libertad de expresion en Internet. 25 anos despues de los sucesos del dia de Martin King, -La Caza de Hackers-, se ha convertido en un libro de culto y un documento historico imprescindible para comprender y entender la transformacion y el impacto de las nuevas comunicaciones en el Siglo XXI

Von Wüstenschiffen und Staubwalen Nullaqua ist eine menschenfeindliche Welt, ein Wüstenplanet mit gigantischen Staubozeanen. Darin leben riesige, walähnliche Tiere, aus deren Kadavern man die Droge Syncophin gewinnt. Zigtausende Süchtige in der gesamten Galaxis können ohne das „Flackern“, das das Syncopin in ihrem Bewusstsein hervorruft, die Realität nicht mehr ertragen, und so jagen riesige Schiffe die Staubwale. Ihre Crews bestehen nur teilweise aus Menschen, doch die Entbehrungen und die tödliche Bedrohung durch die grausame, fremde Natur schweißt sie zu unverbrüchlichen

m uma versão alternativa da Inglaterra vitoriana, a ascensão do Partido Radical trouxe mudanças impressionantes. Pelas ruas da capital, cartolas e crinolinas misturam-se a cinétropos, gurneys e cabriolés. O trem metropolitano e o sistema de esgotos revolucionam a rede urbana. Tudo graças às conquistas científicas alcançadas pela Máquina: no auge da Revolução Industrial, os avanços promovidos pela tecnologia a vapor anunciam a era da informática. Com um século de antecedência. Mas Londres também é uma cidade em convulsão. O alvoroço causado pela turba desordeira assusta a população. Além disso, uma conspiração mais sofisticada - porém não menos perigosa - parece ameaçar a segurança e a estabilidade de todo o país. Enquanto isso, uma misteriosa caixa com cartões perfurados é objeto de cobiça e disputa, pois guarda um segredo estratégico, ligado a interesses nebulosos. Acidentalmente ou não, ela cai nas mãos de diferentes personagens, mudando suas vidas: Sybil Gerard, ex-amante de um político influente e filha de um insurreto executado; Ada Byron, filha de Lorde Byron, então primeiro-ministro da Inglaterra; e Edward Mallory, um respeitado cientista, descobridor do famoso Leviatã Terrestre.

The Nebula-nominated novel of “abrave 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 outbreak of prejudice and hatred. Many thousands of years in the future, the human race has split into two incompatible factions. The aristocratic Mechanists believe that humans can only achieve their greatest potential through technology and enhancing their bodies with powerful prosthetics. The rebel Shapers view these “improvements” as abominations, and their faith in genetic enhancements over mechanical ones has led to violent, even murderous, clashes between the two sects. One man is caught in the middle. The child of Mechanists, Abelard Lindsay is a former Shaper diplomat who was betrayed and cast out of the fold. Scrupulously trained in the fine art of treachery and deceit, he travels freely between the warring camps during his never-ending exile, embracing piracy and revolution all along the way. But while saving his own skin is Lindsay’s main motivation, a greater destiny awaits him, one that could offer a bold new hope for a tragically sundered humankind. A breathtaking flight of unparalleled imagination, Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix Plus also includes every subsequent excursion into the Mechanist and Shaper universe, complementing his acclaimed novel with the complete collection of mind-boggling Schismatrix short fiction. The result is is a total immersion into the Mechanist/Shaper universe from the Hugo, Campbell, and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author called “a writer of excellent fineness” by Harlan Ellison and “one of the very best” by Publishers Weekly.

Nichts ist wahr, alles ist erlaubt Man schreibt das Jahr 2020: Die Nationalstaaten haben ihren politischen Einfluss weitgehend verloren, Multis beherrschen mithilfe einer perfekt vernetzten Informationstechnik die Welt. Laura und David Webster arbeiten als PR-Berater für eine dieser Firmen, Rizome. Grenada, Singapur und Luxembourg sind Datenoasen – hier wird mit jeder Sorte von Informationen gehandelt. Der Konkurrenzkampf zwischen ihnen ist groß und hat die Ausmaße eines Kleinkriegs angenommen. Rizome schickt Laura und David nach Grenada, um ein Abkommen auszuhandeln. Als Singapur Grenada angreift, kann David entkommen, doch Laura wird gefangen genommen. In den folgenden drei Jahren wird sie immer tiefer in die Machenschaften von Firmen, Staaten und Terrororganisationen verstrickt, die sie unmöglich durchschauen kann ...

If the hype is to be believed then the next big thing is the Internet of Things. But is it what you think it is? Because the Internet of Things is not about things on the internet. A world in which all our household gadgets can communicate with each other may sound vaguely useful, but it''s not really for us consumers. The internet of things serves the interests of the technology giants, in their epic wrangles with each other. And it is they who will turn the jargon of "smart cities" and "smart homes" into a self-fulfilling prophesy. In this piercing and provocative essay, Bruce Sterling tells the story of an idea that just won''t go away because there''s too much money to be made and a whole world to control.

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Rudyard Kipling''s With the Night Mail follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling the perfect storm. Between London and Quebec we learn that a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.) now enforces a technocratic system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs. A follow-up story, "As Easy As A.B.C.," recounts what happens when agitators in Chicago demand the return of democracy.

Featuring thirteen satirical short stories, a unique collection includes scientific superstars, a rock singer who is the voice of the people, and two lost souls who drive off the edge of the world and find each other. From the Paperback edition.

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.

The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to the latest advancements in life-extension technology. Meanwhile, the young live on the fringes of society, ekeing out a meagre survival on free, government-issued rations and a black market in stolen technological gadgetry from an earlier, less sophisticated age. Mia Ziemann is a 94-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position. But a deathbed visit with a long-ago ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress-designer brings Mia to an awful revelation. She has lived her life with such caution that it has been totally bereft of pleasure and adventure. She has one chance to do it all over. But first she must submit herself to a radical--and painful--experimental procedure which promises to make her young again. The procedure is not without risk and her second chance at life will not come without a price. But first she will have to escape her team of medical keepers. Hitching a ride on a plane to Europe, Mia sets out on a wild intercontinental quest in search of spiritual gratification, erotic revelation, and the thing she missed most of all: the holy fire of the creative experience. She joins a group of outlaw anarchists whose leader may be the man of her dreams...or her undoing. Worst of all, Mia will have to undergo one last radical procedure that could cost her a second life. In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling once again creates a unique and provocative future that deals with such timeless topics of the human condition as love, memory, science, politics, and the meaning of death. Poginant, lyrical, humorous, and often shocking, Holy Fire offers a hard unsparing look into a world that could become our own. From the Paperback edition.

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--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers. They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life. From "The Littlest Jackal", a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale "Taklamakan", Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.

THE FUTURE IS A KIND OF HISTORY THAT HASN''T HAPPENED YET He''s the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin... From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino... always whipping that slider-bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable. He''s a Californian design visionary. He''s an European electronic-art curator. He''s a Swiss professor of media philosophy. He''s a Prophet of Augmented Reality, even. He''s an author, journalist, editor, critic, theorist, futurist, and blogger. Obviously he''s pretty much anything that he can get his hands on. And he never stops typing. This sixth collection of his fantastic stories is a comic arsenal of dark euphoria. It''s even weirder, harsher and more twisted than the scary decade that inspired it. Boy, that''s saying something. If there''s one thing dear to the heart of this exotic character, one vital prize he will never, ever surrender, one stony core to his mutable, globalized being, it''s his fanatical allegiance to the radical potential of science fiction. That is the truth. Really. That is one hundred percent accurate. You could look that up on Wikipedia. Just like some far-fetched, globe-trotting antihero from one of his own unsettling, yet darkly prophetic novels, he is... Actually, never mind who he is. Does that matter? Is that an issue for us, really? You know what? We''re all done here. Turn the page. We need to pretty much move right along.

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 testament of faith in the power of human intellect, creativity, and spirit to overcome any obstacle–even the obstacles we carry inside ourselves. The world of 2060 is divided into three spheres of influence, each fighting with the others over the resources of fallen nations and an environment degraded almost to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in Los Angeles, where entertainment and capitalism have fused with the highest of high-tech. There is the Acquis, a Green-centered collective that uses invasive neurological technology to create a networked utopia. And there is China, the sole surviving nation-state, a dinosaur that has prospered only by pitilessly pruning its own population. Products of this monstrous world, the daughters of a monstrous mother, and–according to some–monsters themselves, are the Caryatids: the four surviving female clones of a mad Balkan genius and wanted war criminal now ensconced, safely beyond extradition, on an orbiting space station. Radmila is a Dispensation star determined to forget her past by building a glittering, impregnable future. Vera is an Acquis functionary dedicated to reclaiming their home, the Croatian island of Mljet, from catastrophic pollution. Sonja is a medical specialist in China renowned for selflessly risking herself to help others. And Biserka is a one-woman terrorist network. The four “sisters” are united only by their hatred for their “mother”–and for one another. When evidence surfaces of a coming environmental cataclysm, the Dispensation sends its greatest statesman–or salesman–John Montgomery Montalban, husband of Radmila, and lover of Vera and Sonja, to gather the Caryatids together in an audacious plan to save the world.

“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history.” -Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business. Time calls Bruce Sterling “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, “an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists I’ve read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, Reyner Banham, Peter Drucker, and Michael Dertouzos. This book asks the future two questions: What does it mean? and How does it feel? ” Taking a cue from one of William Shakespeare’s greatest soliloquies, Sterling devotes one chapter to each of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. As our children progress through Sterling’s Shakespearean life cycle, they will encounter new products; new weapons; new crimes; new moral conundrums, such as cloning and genetic alteration; and new political movements, which will augur the way wars of the future will be fought. Here are some of the author’s predictions: • Human clone babies will grow into the bitterest and surliest adolescents ever. • Microbes will be more important than the family farm. • Consumer items will look more and more like cuddly, squeezable pets. • Tomorrow’s kids will learn more from randomly clicking the Internet than they ever will from their textbooks. • Enemy governments will be nice to you and will badly want your tourist money, but global outlaws will scheme to kill you, loudly and publicly, on their Jihad TVs. • The future of politics is blandness punctuated with insanity. The future of activism belongs to a sophisticated, urbane global network that can make money—the Disney World version of Al Qaeda. Tomorrow Now will change the way you think about the future and our place in it. From the Hardcover edition.

A collection of thirteen individually introduced cyberpunk tales by the co-author of The Difference Engine brings readers beyond the imagined boundaries of future technology. Original.

A guide to the next great wave of technology—an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. "Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it''s about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic." Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object; we have the primitive forms of them now in our pockets and briefcases: user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable, that will be sustainable, enhanceable, and uniquely identifiable. Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future-manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time. They are made of substances that can be folded back into the production stream of future spimes, challenging all of us to become involved in their production. Spimes are coming, says Sterling. We will need these objects in order to live; we won''t be able to surrender their advantages without awful consequences. The vision of Shaping Things is given material form by the intricate design of Lorraine Wild. Shaping Things is for designers and thinkers, engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers; and anyone who wants to understand and be part of the process of technosocial transformation.

“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 living extra-large as a VP for a booming Internet company. But the September 11 attacks on America change everything. Recruited as the key member of an elite federal computer-security team, Van enters the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence community. His special genius is needed to debug the software glitch in America’s most crucial KH-13 satellite, capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide. But the problem is much deeper. Now Van must make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful ex-Special Forces commando, and root out an unknown enemy—one with access to a weapon of untold destructive power. “Great fun . . . A cyberthriller of 21st-century technologies [that] peeps wittily behind the national security scenes of a modern superpower.”—New Scientist “A comedic thriller for the homeland security era.”—Entertainment Weekly

Are beads, bangles, and braids your passion? Then here''s your guide to stunning styles and dazzling jewelry. One handbook has beady basics and handy hints. Another presents a bonanza of bracelets, necklaces, fancy bandanas, and more to make. Join the "Braid Parade" and perfect your plaiting for hair and other projects, too. "Facts and Fashions" features a worldwide tour of beaded gems and wonderful weavings. "Plus" a birthstone chart, bookmark, pom-pom rings, stickers, and beads and braids to start you off!

Crosswords, quizzes, optical illusions, problems and puzzles: if you love games, every kind of imaginable fun is right here, from jokes in code to connect-the-numbers riddles. And the lively pictures are a comic blast, too. Find the dinosaur''s lost spots and color them in. Put the dominoes in the correct order to see what they spell. Calculate the age of a snail by adding and subtracting the numbers on its shell. Brain challenges don''t get better than this.

Dans une humanité déracinée, peuplant le système solaire de gigantesques stations orbitales, écartelée entre les tenants de l''évolution par la technologie et ceux de la manipulation génétique, Abélard Lindsay, jeune diplomate issu de la République corporative circumlunaire de Mare Serenitatis, tente de trouver son chemin. Fils d''aristocrate, il doit apprendre à survivre, à choisir son camp. Mais au moment où l''homme évolue, cesse d''exister en tant que tel pour se scinder en espèces nouvelles, il croit enfin comprendre son destin : réconcilier Mécas et Morphos autour d''un projet grandiose, la terraformation des mondes... Considérée, avec Neuromancien de William Gilson, comme le texte fondateur du mouvement cyberpunk, La schismatrice de Bruce Sterling est la figure de proue de l''immense Univers des Mécas et des Morphos, pour la première fois réuni en un seul volume.