Schismatrix Plus

by Bruce Sterling

Overview

Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.

In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix—where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780441003709
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Series:	Shapers-Mechanists Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bruce Sterling is an Austin-born science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a cyberspace theorist who is also considered one of the forefathers of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. He has won a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards, and an Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Editorial Reviews

This collection contains Sterling's cyberpunk sf Shaper/Mechanist universe short stories from his collection Crystal Express plus his novel Schismatrix, both published in the 1980s. Recommended for sf collections lacking the two books.

Library Journal

A brave new world of nearly constant future shock . . . Ambitious . . . Fast-moving. Sterling’s real forte lies in the evocation of technological and human strangeness.” —The Washington Post

“Spectacular . . . A marvelous feat of invention.” —Booklist

“Absorbingly original . . . Highly imaginative . . . An arresting slice of future history.” —Kirkus Reviews

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