11-22-2024, 07:56 PM
mobi | 7.59 MB | English| Isbn:9780307796769 | Author: Bruce Sterling | Year: 2011
Description:
Quote:A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine.Category:Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Alternate Realities - Fiction, Social Science Fiction, High Tech and Hard Science Fiction, Disasters & Accidents - Fiction, End of the World & Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Science Fiction - Ecological, Science Fiction - High Tech, Storms - Fiction
The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by climate change. But even their visionary leader can't predict the danger on the horizon when a volatile new member joins their ranks and faces a trial by fire: a massive tornado unlike any the world has seen before.
"A remarkable and individual sharpness of vision . . . Sterling hacks the future, and an elegant hack it is." - Locus
"Lucid and tremendously entertaining. Sterling shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. A cyberpunk winner." - Kirkus Reviews
"So believable are the speculations that . . . one becomes convinced that the world must and will develop into what Sterling has predicted." - Science Fiction Age
"A very exciting coming-of-age story in a wild future America . . . What's it got? Cyberpunk attitude, genuine humor, nanotechnology, minimal sex but some cool medications and very big weather systems." -SFReviews.net
"Brilliant . . . Fascinating . . . Exciting . . . A full complement of thrills." - The New York Review of Science Fiction