- Paperback
- Publisher: GOLLANCZ
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1857989287
- ISBN-13: 978-1857989281
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 281 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
It's okay,
By Ward Mesick (Bear, DE) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Distraction (Mass Market Paperback)
The story here is decent but not exactly what it's pitched as. To read the description would lead you to believe that you're going to read a book about two people trying to change a corrupt, lost America. But by the time you finish, it's obvious that the story is more about two people who are caught up in their own bubble and have not really made an effort to fix America. Instead they have played a bunch of "dangerous" games with a few politicians and some crazies who have dropped out of society becuase there are just not jobs left.I was also constantly mystified at how everyone reacts to Oscar in this story. Every single character he comes across just stares in amazement at his skills to think and plan quickly and to get the upper hand. That is fine and all except that he never actually earns this respect. At no point in the story did he have a thought that was really that original or dashing. Sure, he can talk quick but lots of people can do that. There were no ideas he put forward that the reader couldn't see coming. Perhaps the moral of the lesson is that in the future everyone will be so slow that a "normal" thinker by our standards will be nearly super-human. But the one thing this book has going for it is that it has a sharp, believable future. If we don't fix our system now, it is not difficult to see the America painted here as a reality. That vision of the future alone does make this worth reading and saved the book from some serious issues that I had with it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A work of precision intensity and intelligence,
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This review is from: Distraction (Mass Market Paperback)
Bruce Sterling addresses every major topic of our time. It is a transformational futurists view of the social impact that biotechnology, nanotech, and a global network may have. The sheer number of concepts that have been intertwined and projected into the future are staggering. It is a massive vision, and yet it is told simply and with a sensitivity for suspense and overall appeal.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Near Future Sci-Fi,
By A Customer
This review is from: Distraction (Mass Market Paperback)
Sterling does it again with this book, prescient and witty. It tells the tale of two people stuck in a civil war of sorts between the old world and the new. It is a great read if you are into "Emergence Theory," as you watch the city of Buna unfold.
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