A Good Old-Fashioned Future
by Bruce Sterling
New York: Bantam Spectra, 1999
When I grow up, I expect to be a minor character in a Bruce Sterling story. In
fact, I expect most people I know to be minor characters in a Bruce Sterling
story.
This is a change. Once I rather hoped that the future would be like an
Arthur C. Clarke story: interesting, but rational and progressive and
fundamentally sensible and sane. I don't any more; I still expect that the
future will be interesting, but I also expect it will not be progressive, and
that it will get weirder and weirder until it makes no sense to me at all, and
I'm a hopeless old relic. (Or until I become so weird that I'll make
no sense to my present self at all.)
Disclaimer: Bruce Sterling is an on-line acquaintance; but I
have no stake in the success of this book.
279 pp.
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future currently in print as a
paperback, ISBN 0-553-57642-9, US$6.99.