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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.
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Epic, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Bruce Sterling, Jay Snyder
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345512710
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Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. - [*Wikipedia*][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
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