Awards

• Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1999 (UK)
• Short-listed for John W. Campbell Memorial Award 1999 (UK)
• Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award 2000 (UK)

Overview

""This is a very smart, very funny book"" - Locus ""Enthralling and subversive"" - SF Commentary ""An excellent piece of future-gazing"" - Amazon Reviewer A Dutch Cold War is in full swing. The US is a shadow of its former self - its infrastructure is failing, and nomadic tribes roam freely among the states, living by no rules but their own. Oscar Valpariso - always impeccably dressed - is only half human, but he's master political strategist to potentially the next president. If he can straighten out his love life, gain control of a high-tech scientific facility, and solve a worldwide crisis that only he's noticed, America should be ripe for the taking . . .

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Author Information

Bruce Sterling burst onto the SF scene with the birth of Cyberpunk and co-authored THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE with his colleague William Gibson. His biggest UK success was with THE HACKER CRACKDOWN. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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