5/25/2023 0 Comments Globalhead by Bruce SterlingAnd the artefact is not what they expected. It’s got plenty of cold war paranoia, party and love politics. Storming the Cosmos: this is a collaboration with Rudy Rucker, describing a Tunguska Expedition by the KGB, early in the space race, to obtain a sample of the Alien technology which crashed there. Anyway, it discusses Gene Hacking gone wrong and viral, and resulting in a world where animals develop intelligence. Er, populist science? How very Daily Mail. Our Neural Chernobyl: This is a pseudo-review of a fictional book by Dr Felix Hollom, an ‘Open Tower Scientist’. It contains 12 stories of varying length, and, as usual for such collections, spanning a substantial range of topics and approaches most of which I rather enjoyed. Global Headis/was Bruce Sterling’s first published collection of short stories (he’s published 4 more since) – these are stories written between 85 and 92 and, in retrospect (don’t we all love hindsight!) show his departure from the Cyberpunk/Steampunk stories he was writing (or, rather, selling!) at the time.
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