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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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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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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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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