He rode the motorbike with an intense lack of physical grace, as if trying to do algebra with his legs.Īpart from the novels, the short story collections Crystal Express, Globalhead and A Good Old-Fashioned Future are also indispensable. He had never ridden any motorized device that lacked onboard steering and balance systems. There wasn't a single human being left in the world who fully understood what was going on inside those little boxes.
They cost about as much as a pair of good shoes. The Troupe's switching stations were cheap-ass little Malaysian-made boxes of recycled barf-colored plastic. I love all the throwaway ideas: spaceships infested with colorful genetically-engineered cockroaches! Algorithms which look for paranoid schizophrenics on the net and try to persuade them to assassinate people!
They're all pretty fast reads -the plot just blazes along- but there's enough there to repay rereading too. Anyone who likes SF should run to the bookstore for these. Schismatrix, Distraction, Heavy Weather, and Holy Fire are top of my list. During the 80's and 90's he came out with a string of novels and stories which for my money are among the best ever published under the banner of Science Fiction.
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