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Miles above the surface, the ultra-wealthy live in orbital homes, watching the surface citizens' home-produced videos of sex and extreme violence. The title character of The Artificial Kid, Arti, is the most popular of the Combat Artists.
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Classical in form, cool, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Bruce Sterling
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Ace Books, HardWired, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781713561514
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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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