Distraction
Release date: 1998
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel winner 2000, Hugo Best Novel nominee 1999, John W Campbell Memorial Award nominee 1999. 2044 and the US is coming apart at the seams. The people live nomadic lives and the new cold war is with the Dutch, fought mostly over the Net. This is your future, and Oscar Valparaiso's too — or it would be if he wasn't half human, half genetically modified.
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About the Author :: Bruce Sterling
Born in Texas, US, in 1954, Bruce Sterling has traveled the globe writing and working for The New York Times, Nature, Wired, Newsday, and a number of industrial design magazines. His first story appeared in in 1976. His short fiction has appeared in almost every major publication in the science fiction field. One of his most memorable novels is far future adventure Schismatrix. His stories were an essential part of the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s. The Difference Engine, co-written with William Gibson, was a bestseller. In 1999, he won the Hugo Award in the short-story category. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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