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Paperback Visionary in Residence: Stories Book

ISBN: 1560258411

ISBN13: 9781560258414

Visionary in Residence: Stories

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Customer Reviews

4 customer ratings | 4 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Maybe his best collection yet.

I've grown quite tired of Sterling's novels. With the exception of the "Schismatrix" material (with I think is his masterpiece), his long-form fiction often degenerates into rambling narrative, inconsistent characters, and non-endings. But his short-story material is wonderful. I can't think of another writer who is so consitently imaginative, entertaining, funny, and insightful. I've enjoyed all of his collections, and...

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Rated 5 stars
Sterling Still One of Science Fiction's Best Short Story Writers

Although he remains one of my favorite writers, it's been years since I came across a Bruce Sterling book that I've felt quite enthusiastic about (Most notably his great novels "Heavy Weather", and especially "Holy Fire", which are undoubtedly two of his finest novels.), but now I have just finished reading one of his best short story collections; "Visionary in Residence". This may be his most impressive short story collection...

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Rated 4 stars
Great collection of stories

I really enjoyed this collection of short stories from Bruce Sterling. Thematically the stories range all over the place from post-human to ancient history and ancient alternate history. The thing that ties all these stories together and made the book so great for me was that these tales reflect many of the futurist ideas posited in his non-fiction work Tomorrow Now. If you haven't read Tomorrow Now I highly recommend it,...

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Rated 5 stars
Visionary In Residence

Visionary in Residence is a collection that unites thirteen stories (published circa 1999-2005) by Bruce Sterling under one cover; two of these yarns also happen to be collaborations with his close friends Paul and Rudy. Audiences generally regard Sterling to be an author of science fiction, but his writing (continuing to transition into more alien forms of that genre) lately seems to congeal around disparate fields such as...

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