Short Stories/Novellas
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine May 1985 Vol. 9 No. 5 Rare. Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. May 1985 Volume 9. No. 5 (Whole No. 91). 1985. ISSN 0-02648-387167-05. Empire State/Keith Minnion; Dinner In Audoghast/Bruce Sterling; Shipwrecked On Destiny Five/Andrew Joron; The Tree Of Dreams/Scott Russell Sanders; The War At Home/Lewis Shiner; After The Days Of Dead -Eye ‘Dee/Pat Cadigan; Preliminary Notes On The Jang/Lisa Goldstein; Anyone Here From Utah?/Michael Swanwick; Sea Changes/Mara Randall; The Woman Who Saved The World/Susan Palwick; On A Hot Summer Night In A Place Far Away/Pat Murphy; A Clean Escape/John Kessel; And More. Illustrated. 429 Pages. First Edition. Rare. Davis Publications, Inc., New York. Printed In The United States. Illustrated Paperback. Condition. Overall Good Condition. Some Wear Noted Due To Age. Address Label Of Previous Owner Noted On Front Cover. Please See Additional Photos For Full Depiction Of Item.
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - May 1987
June 1988. Cover art by David A. Hardy. Stories include "Our Neural Chernobyl" by Bruce Sterling. Editor: Edward L. Ferman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Bizarre and comical. A charming story." [Livia Blackburne] "A fascinating story. Great work, Maestro!" [Mickey Blue Eyes] A story with bombs and love and engineers and a woman with two heads «I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a man, expecting that he will change. A man takes a woman, expecting that she will never change. They are both disappointed. Yet within this very disappointment is the primal source of all new men and all new women.» «No one within the castle had ever been able to overcome the severe grammatical problems associated with Ida. Sometimes she was “she,” sometimes they were “they”. There were further problems with the singular form, the plural form, the feminine plural possessives, the feminine singular and plural pronoun declensions, and so forth. Even when I came to know Ida, Clemenza, Vittoria, particularly well, so much so that I used affectionate diminutives for her, and the intimate familiar form rather than any formal honorifics, I used to stumble over the simplest Italian sentences: “You” (singular) come embrace me,” or “You (plural) please give me a kiss.”» ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
“We started reading Black Swan and couldn’t put down our Kindle until the last word.” [Brain Pickings] 2009 Sidewise Award Nominee Bruce Sterling brings us a tale of espionage, cyber-threats, alternate realities and intrigue in “Black Swan”, a dark and cyberpunk novelette. Luca is a technology blogger looking for anything newsworthy. ‘Massimo Montaldo’ is the nickname of hacker living on the fringe of society. What can happen when these two very different people meet each other? Massimo has discovered something, something that could shift the balance of power among the superpowers of the world. A Black Swan. What is a Black Swan? “A black swan, when it arrives, cannot even be recognized as a black swan. When the black swan assaults us, with the wingbeats of some rapist Jupiter, then we must rewrite history.” As a journalist, Luca must investigate, learn the truth – or should he? What if this is all beyond him, beyond his ability to fully grasp? Memristors? Euro-Liras? Spies and the possibility of an Alternate Italy? What if the risk is too high, the danger too great? Warring between what is safe and what is right, Luca had to decide if reporting the truth is worth the risk… ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. "Black Swan" is a novelette. 9250 words.
Carlo Morse and Jimmy Ganzer pioneered dream-fabbing, but these days people only want to close their eyes to trashy stuff -- not the mention the kids and their fancy imported tech. It's a good thing Schwartz's Deli is still the same. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
"The feds aren't going to fund you anymore. Not when your boss is a self-flattening radioactive pancake." Desperate times call for desperate inventions. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The saucer aliens are here. They're healing the planet. They've got to be stopped. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.