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Sto caricando le informazioni... Crystal Express (originale 1989; edizione 1990)di Bruce Sterling (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I was a little disappointed with this book, not because it was bad but because i've come to expect more from bruce sterling. This collection of shorts is divided into three sections: Shaper/Mechanic following two rival factions of humanity on their way to becoming post-human, Science Fiction near future sci-fi including the only story I really loved ( Green Days in Brunei), and Fantasy. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieShaper/Mechanist Universe (Short Story Collection) Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiPrésence du futur (524) ContienePremi e riconoscimenti
Written by the author of Involution Ocean, The Artificial Kid, Islands in the Net and the editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, this is a collection of short science fiction stories. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The "fantasy" stories were my second favorite. They were all interesting and covered the ground from alternate history to plain supernatural. The Little Masgic Shop was my favorite. Could have easily been a Twilight Zone episode.
I liked the non-S/M scifi stories the least. Don't get me wrong, all these stories were well above average, I just liked these the least in this particular collection. To be fair, I have a bias against cyberpunk. It seems to become dated rather quickly (these stories were written in the 1980s) because digital technology is moving so fast in the real world. The Green Days in Brunei was my least favorite story and it was one of the longer stories. The clunky non-futuristic telecommunications and "network" technology that was supposed to drive the story was just too distracting.
Another thing, scifi authors shouldn't name drop corporations in their fiction; make the names of companies up. It seems silly for an author to insert a real corporate name into a narrative when to us reading it in the future the company went belly-up or merged or is in a different business now. It may seem cool and prescient at the time of writing but 9 times out of 10 it's going to be wrong and distracting to the future reader, even in the near future. Think of the "Pan Am" shuttle in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Come to think of it, even putting a definite year into a scifi story is a potential distraction unless you want to make it a loooong way off. In most cases it's just not necessary. We can't even get a chimp to the moon anymore much less fly a human to Jupiter. End of rant. ( )