A Good Old-Fashioned Future

2011-06-22 Fiction

Author : Bruce Sterling
Release : 2011-06-22
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 809/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Good Old-Fashioned Future written by Bruce Sterling. This book was released on 2011-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers. They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life. From "The Littlest Jackal", a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale "Taklamakan", Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.

A Good Old-fashioned Future

2001 Fantasy fiction, American

Author : Bruce Sterling
Release : 2001
Genre : Fantasy fiction, American
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 102/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Good Old-fashioned Future written by Bruce Sterling. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time in book form for seven extended short stories from one of the key figures in SF. Bruce Sterling has consistently proved himself to be one step ahead of the game, always one of SF's trendsetters and in these stories his skill is shown off to superb effect. The book includes the three linked stories DEEP EDDY, BICYCLE REPAIRMAN and TAKLAMAKAN that build into one of the most entertaining and thoughtful visions of the world in the mid 21st century.Sterling writes hard SF but also brings to his books astonishing wit and spot-on-target social commentary - a vision of a world running on empty. From his early novels, to his groundbreaking anthology of cyberpunk and the collaboration with William Gibson that defined the genre of Steampunk Sterling has been a mould breaker; these stories, published between 1993 and 1998 show why.

Big Nate: A Good Old-Fashioned Wedgie

2017-08-29 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Lincoln Peirce
Release : 2017-08-29
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Big Nate: A Good Old-Fashioned Wedgie written by Lincoln Peirce. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need a way to shut up some snooty kid when he gloats about his private school? Looking for the perfect response when your best friend joins the grammar police? Want a quick and easy way to out-snap even the snappiest comeback? Nate Wright has the answer: a good old-fashioned wedgie! The whole gang from P.S. 38 is back for more hijinks, hilarity, and underwear hoisting in this new collection of Big Nate comics. Can Chad somehow survive on a diet of kale and soy nuts? Are Jenny and Artur EVER going to break up? And how is Nate supposed to concentrate on baseball when he’s got a crush on his team’s new pitcher? See for yourself! Join Nate and the rest of the crew for another unforgettable round of middle school adventures!

Old Fashioned

2014 Fiction

Author : Rene Gutteridge
Release : 2014
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Old Fashioned written by Rene Gutteridge. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay Walsh settles down after a wild lifestyle to fun an antique store. But when a free-spirited woman moves into the apartment above the shop he can't help but be drawn to her.

Zeitgeist

2011-06-29 Fiction

Author : Bruce Sterling
Release : 2011-06-29
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 795/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Zeitgeist written by Bruce Sterling. This book was released on 2011-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted — pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex. His market is staring him in the face: millions of teenagers trapped in a world of mullahs and mosques, all ready to blow their pocket change on G-7’s massive merchandising campaign — and to wildly anticipate music the band will never release. Leggy’s brilliant plan means doing business with some of the world’s most dangerous people. Among these thieves, schemers, and killers, he must act quickly and decisively. Y2K is just around the corner — and the only rule to live by is that the whole scheme stops before the year 2000. But Leggy’s G-7 Zeitgeist is in serious jeopardy, for in Istanbul his former partners are getting restless — and the G-7 girls are beginning to die.... From the Paperback edition.

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