Short stories deal with genetically altered humans, cyborgs, space travel, a world governed by multinational corporations

Crystal Express

bruce-sterling

Orbit

Schismatrix

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Penguin??Books

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Artificial Kid

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Roc+

Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror. Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s how nations and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And for Derek “Van” Vandeveer, pioneering computer wizard, a new cyberwarrior career begins on the fateful date of September 11, 2001. Happily married with a new baby, pulling down mind-blowing money as a VP of research and development for a booming Internet company, Van has been living extralarge. Then the devastating attacks on America change everything. And Van must decide if he’s willing to use the talents that built his perfect world in order to defend it. “It’s our networks versus their death cult,” says the government operative who recruits Van as the key member of an ultraelite federal computer-security team. In a matter of days, Van has traded his cushy life inside the dot-com bubble for the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence community—where rival agencies must grudgingly abandon decades of distrust and infighting to join forces against chilling new threats. Van’s special genius is needed to make the country’s defense systems hacker-proof. And if he makes headway there, he’ll find himself troubleshooting ultrasecret spy satellites. America’s most powerful and crucial “eye in the sky,” the KH-13 satellite—capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide with pinpoint accuracy—is perilously close to becoming an orbiting billion-dollar boondoggle, unless Van can debug the glitch that’s knocked it out of commission. Little does he suspect that the problem has nothing at all to do with software . . . and that what’s really wrong with the KH-13 will force Van to make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful ex–Special Forces commando, and root out an unknown enemy . . . one with access to an undreamed of weapon of untold destructive power.

The Zenith Angle

United States

Del Rey

Vol. 13, No. 7, September 1989. Cover art by A. C. Farley Illustrating "The Father of Stones"  (1988) by Lucius Shepard. ALSO:  Red Planet Blues by Allen Steele; The Mer (poem) by Anne Devereaux Jordan; Events Which Took Place a Day Before Other Events by Avram Davidson; Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling; First Encounter (poem) by Ace G. Pilkington; People Like Us by Nancy Kress; As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us by Deborah Wessell; The Sock Story by Eileen Gunn; Entropy: A Cinquain (poem) by Martha Soukup. FEATURES: Wrong!  [editorial] by Isaac Asimov; Letters ; Neat Stuff by Matthew J. Costello; On Books by Baird Searles; SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss. Interior art by Gary Freeman, N. Taylor Blanchard, George Thompson, Robert Shore, Laurie Harden, A. C. Farley.

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989 (Vol. 13, No. 7)

Lucius Shepard)

Avram Davidson

Allen Steele

Nancy Kress

Science Fiction

Davis Publications

In London of 1855, celebrated paleontologist Edward Mallory gets mixed up with Charles Babbage, the inventor of an advanced calculating machine run by his elite group of clackers

The Difference Engine

William, Gibson

Bantam/Spectra

Forty years hence, a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists called "The Storm Troupers" track a group of massive tornadoes in Texas--a result of the greenhouse effect--in preparation for the worst storm in history.

Heavy Weather

Spectra

Featuring thirteen satirical short stories, a unique collection includes scientific superstars, a rock singer who is the voice of the people, and two lost souls who drive off the edge of the world and find each other.

Globalhead

The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to the latest advancements in life-extension technology. Meanwhile, the young live on the fringes of society, ekeing out a meagre survival on free, government-issued rations and a black market in stolen technological gadgetry from an earlier, less sophisticated age. Mia Ziemann is a 94-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position. But a deathbed visit with a long-ago ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress-designer brings Mia to an awful revelation. She has lived her life with such caution that it has been totally bereft of pleasure and adventure. She has one chance to do it all over. But first she must submit herself to a radical--and painful--experimental procedure which promises to make her young again. The procedure is not without risk and her second chance at life will not come without a price. But first she will have to escape her team of medical keepers. Hitching a ride on a plane to Europe, Mia sets out on a wild intercontinental quest in search of spiritual gratification, erotic revelation, and the thing she missed most of all: the holy fire of the creative experience. She joins a group of outlaw anarchists whose leader may be the man of her dreams...or her undoing. Worst of all, Mia will have to undergo one last radical procedure that could cost her a second life. In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling once again creates a unique and provocative future that deals with such timeless topics of the human condition as love, memory, science, politics, and the meaning of death. Poginant, lyrical, humorous, and often shocking, Holy Fire offers a hard unsparing look into a world that could become our own.

Holy Fire

Genre Fiction

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