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dsrtao_Ascendancies_, Bruce Sterling
Single-author short story anthology, billes as the best of his works. A few Shaper/Mechanist stories, the Chattanooga trilogy, a few stand-alones.
It's interesting to me how his style changesover time, yet usually feels representative of a [different] group of authors. _Cicada Queen_ could be Swanwick, _Green Days in Brunei_ could be Gibson (after a suitable course of antidepressants), _Our Neural Chernobyl_ could be Brin, _Are You For 86?_ channels Rucker, _Bicycle Repairman_ could be Doctorow. In fact, if _Bicycle Repairman_ was set in Toronto instead of a future Chattanooga arcology, everyone would nod sagely and say, yes, that's Cory Doctorow doing really good work.
There's no point in reading the first group of stories when _Schismatrix Plus_ is still in print, but the rest of them are entirely worthwhile.
Single-author short story anthology, billes as the best of his works. A few Shaper/Mechanist stories, the Chattanooga trilogy, a few stand-alones.
It's interesting to me how his style changesover time, yet usually feels representative of a [different] group of authors. _Cicada Queen_ could be Swanwick, _Green Days in Brunei_ could be Gibson (after a suitable course of antidepressants), _Our Neural Chernobyl_ could be Brin, _Are You For 86?_ channels Rucker, _Bicycle Repairman_ could be Doctorow. In fact, if _Bicycle Repairman_ was set in Toronto instead of a future Chattanooga arcology, everyone would nod sagely and say, yes, that's Cory Doctorow doing really good work.
There's no point in reading the first group of stories when _Schismatrix Plus_ is still in print, but the rest of them are entirely worthwhile.
