

Schismatrix Plus
Author: Bruce Sterling
Narrator: Pavi Proczko
Unabridged: 17 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/29/2020
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Collections & Anthologies
Author: Bruce Sterling
Narrator: Pavi Proczko
Unabridged: 17 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/29/2020
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Collections & Anthologies
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.
What a great read this was. I've never been much of a fan of cyberpunk and I'm not particularly a fan of the authors generally noted to be founders of the genre (William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, etc.), but I really loved this book and it has put Bruce Sterling near the top of my list for sci-fi writ......more
The moment I read in Galactic North that Alastair Reynolds acknowledged Schismatrix as a huge influence in developing his Revelation Space series, I knew I had to eventually track it down. Four years later, eventually finally happened. So let me first of all clarify the difference between Schismatri......more
A bizarre absurdist bourgeois epic set in the space kindgom of the posthuman con artists. Features hyperbole and sharp dark humor. As scientific and technological advances shatter the limitations which define modern thought and sustain the existence of a single human community, rugged individualists......more
I had written Bruce Sterling off as a relic of the cyberpunk era, big mistake. The wow factor is pretty big on this. Mind mutating, WTF, idea per sentence science fiction with shades at time of Bester, Triptree jr. Delaney, Barrington J. Bailey(who blurbs it) William S. Burroughs, and Ballard. Dense......more
Neutron Star-Dense Cyberpunk, Hugely Influential, Hard to Digest Back in the 1980s, it was William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), Bruce Stirling's Schismatrix (1985), Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired (1985), and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992) that gave birth to the concept of cyberpunk, shaking thin......more
“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