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Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling / [edited by Jonathan Strahan ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler ; foreword by Bruce Sterling].
Van Pelt Library PS3569.T3876 A93 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterling, Bruce.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 547 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Burton, MI : Subterranean, [2007]
- Summary:
- Polemicist, provocateur, futurist, and visionary in residence, Bruce Sterling has been personally sharpening the cutting edge of science fiction for more than 30 years. From tales of The Shaper/Mechanist to Leggy Starlitz to his Chattanooga Stories, this anthology spans the gamut of Sterlings works from 1976 to 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler
- Foreword / by Bruce Sterling
- Part 1: The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm
- Spider Rose
- Cicada queen
- Sunken gardens
- Twenty evocations
- Part 2: Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei
- Dinner in Audoghast
- The compassionate, the digital
- Flowers of Edo
- The little magic shop
- Our neural Chernobyl
- We see things differently
- Dori Bangs
- Part 3: The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin
- Are you for 86?
- The littlest jackal
- Part 4: The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy
- Bicycle repairman
- Taklamakan
- Part V: Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles
- Maneki Neko
- In paradise
- The blemmye's strategem
- Kiosk.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781596061132
- 1596061138
- OCLC:
- 144225931
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