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Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling

by Bruce Sterling · 1980

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Polemicist, provocateur, futurist, and visionary in residence, Bruce Sterling has been personally sharpening the cutting edge of science fiction for more than 30 years. From tales of The Shaper/Mechanist to Leggy Starlitz to his Chattanooga Stories, this anthology spans the gamut of Sterlings works from 1976 to 2007.

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thiscyberpunkcyberpunkMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 547 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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