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Bruce Sterling - Distraction

Bruce Sterling - Distraction

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Visionary crawdad-eating psychos

by tomgray , Jun 07 '00
Pros: Too funny, wonderfully imaginative.
Cons: Ideas in super dense pack.
Bruce Sterling's Distraction rivals and perhaps surpasses Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash* as the best comic novel to date of the information age. Full of satire that is almost indistinguishable from straightforward extrapolation of today's...
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Absurdity is Often a Good Thing

by BookReader , May 28 '00
Pros: Stering can see absurdities in very innocent places
Cons: The various social groups don't always ring true.
Distraction, Bruce Sterling, Bantam Spectra Books, 1540 Broadway, New York NY 10036, 1998, ISBN 0-553-10484-5, hardback, 439 pages, US $24.95

Nominated for the 1998 Hugo Award.

About 20 pages into Distraction I realized the book is...
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Post-Cyberpunk and loving it

by JackWilliamBell , Oct 12 '99
Pros: Fast paced, well plotted, enjoyable read
Cons: Cyberpunk purists might dislike this book intensely
Summary: Fast paced novel about politics and social change in near future America. Up to the standard of Sterling's best work. Recommended.

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Grasps the moment

by jstrahan , Sep 09 '99
Pros: humour, clear-headed worldview
Cons: not as cutting edge as his previous novel
Bruce Sterling is the best science fiction writer alive today. His work, most notably in his short fiction and in his novel Holy Fire, clearly demonstrates that he understands the way the world works, and is able to express the complexity and oddity of...
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Cyberpunk Lovers Only!

by ggridley , Sep 08 '99
Pros: I can't think of any...
Cons: Very little character definition
Unfortunately, I'm not a cyberpunk lover - at all. If you're into William Gibson, I'm guessing that you'll probably appreciate this author's style. If, however, you find the movement and plotting of the cyberpunk genre difficult to follow (as I do),...
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