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A carregar... Visionary in Residence: Storiespor Bruce Sterling
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Bruce Sterling shows that he truly is a visionary in this collection of short stories. Whether focussed on the present -- e.g, Code -- the future -- e.g., The Scab's Progress or the past -- The Blemmye's Stratagem -- Sterling shows an acute deftness in narrative and worldbuilding, telling compelling stories in worlds that complement but do not eclipse the narrative. Truly a gem. ( ) A mixed bag. Some of the stories are delightful, and told in Sterling's distinctive voice. The two collaborations with Di Filippo and Rucker I found a bit unreadable. There's everything from contemporary fiction, which as he points out would have been seen as visionary SF in the '70s, to design fiction, to 800-word pieces for Nature – a format that I hope Nature has arranged to publish its own collection of. Recommended. Skip the collobarations. The collaborations ruin interesting stories with gobbledy-gook attempting to be lit-witty or ribosome-savvy or erudite (sometimes all in one sentence). Other reviewers have enjoyed these two stories, but I'm glad I won't have to read them again. Visionary in Residence collects 13 stories. Really very good: "In Paradise" (**** 1/2) "The Growthing" (****) "Code" (**** 1/2) "Luciferase" (****) Two Very Good Fantasy: "The Blemmye's Stratagem" (****) "The Denial" (*** 1/2) Fun and interesting: "Ivory Tower" (*** 1/2) "Message Found In A Bottle" (***) "Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct" (*** 1/2) "User-Centric" (***) "The Necropolis of Thebes" (***) Boring and too hard to read: "The Scab's Progress (with Paul Di Filippo)" (*) "Junk DNA (with Rudy Rucker)" (**) (Sterling seems to suffer only when collaborating) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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I'm a science fiction writer. This is a golden opportunity to get up to most any mischief imaginable. With this fourth collection of my stories, I'm going to prove this to you. With these words, Bruce Sterling,author of New York times Notable Books of the Year and one of the great names in contemporary fiction,introduces his latest collection of thirteen tales. If you're familiar with his cyberpunk creations you won't be disappointed, but these stories range far beyond the limits of future technology. Visionary in Residence takes the reader to places never imagined and certainly where no one has ever been. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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