Most Popular Books by Bruce Sterling

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

Analyse : Nouvelles.

En cette fin de XXIe siècle, les industriels de la santé dominent l''économie mondiale. Le pouvoir est entre les mains, plutôt conservatrices, de citoyens du troisième âge qui ont su gérer leur capital en investissant dans des technologies médicales de pointe, qu''ils sont désormais seuls à pouvoir offrir. Pour eux, l''immortalité n''est plus un rêve inaccessible. A quatre-vingt-quatorze ans, Mia Ziemann est l''une de ces privilégiées, mais une visite à un amour de jeunesse, qui a décidé d''en finir avec l''existence, ainsi qu''une rencontre de hasard avec une conceptrice de mode vont la conduire à une révélation effroyable : par excès de prudence, elle a gâché sa vie. A moins que... Car il lui reste une chance de repartir de zéro. A condition de se soumettre à un traitement de rajeunissement, douloureux et risque. Et à condition, ensuite, d''échapper à ses médecins pour fuir en Europe. Bref, de se jeter à corps perdu dans l''illégalité...