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THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. Octavo, boards. First edition. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-186].
THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1991]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition. Perhaps the classic steampunk novel. A tale set in a filthy, polluted Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron who had escaped death in Greece. A 1991 Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-442].
THE ARTIFICIAL KID.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-537].
ASCENDANCIES: THE BEST OF BRUCE STERLING.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies signed by Sterling. This is copy 78. Collects twenty-four stories.
CRYSTAL EXPRESS.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects all Sterling's Shaper / Mechanist stories including the 1982 novella "Swarm," plus a selection of the best of his other short fiction. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1078].
CRYSTAL EXPRESS.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects all Sterling's Shaper / Mechanist stories including the 1982 novella "Swarm," plus a selection of the best of his other short fiction. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1078].
CRYSTAL EXPRESS.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects all Sterling's Shaper / Mechanist stories including the 1982 novella "Swarm," plus a selection of the best of his other short fiction. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1078].
DISTRACTION.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1998]. First edition. "In the mid-twenty-first century, political operative Oscar Valparaiso, himself a clone, investigates a scandal-ridden federal laboratory in East Texas. Meanwhile, Leonard Two Feathers, the newly elected president of the United States, considers declaring war on the rapidly submerging Netherlands, and Green Huey, the corrupt governor of Louisiana, engages in illegal genetic research while establishing his own private biker army. This brilliantly done example of satiric SF shows Sterling at his post-cyberpunk best." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1079. The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was a 1999 Hugo nominee for best novel. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
GLOBALHEAD: STORIES ...
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen stories. Sterling's second collection of short fiction. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-438].
HEAVY WEATHER.
New York, Toronto, London... Bantam Books, [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel of the future with the weather out of control in a world of ecological disaster. "Everybody talks about the weather; but Jane Unger and her band of Storm Troupers hack the weather. In the late 2030s, as a legacy of the greenhouse effect, millions of people have died or been displaced due to heavy weather. A renegade band of meteorologists and computer experts, the Storm Troupe, prowls the Texas plains, chasing funnel clouds, gathering data, and waiting for the meteorological equivalent of the Big One: an F-6 tornado, a twister so big that it could mean the end of civilization. Using flying robots, cross-terrain vehicles, virtual reality, and raw courage, the Troupe risks life and limb for the sake of scientific knowledge (and for the attendant thrills). Into the somewhat unstable society of the Troupe comes Jane's younger brother Alex, professional invalid and family ne'er-do-well. To everyone's astonishment, Alex thrives and brings a perspective on loyalty, family, and sacrifice that helps pull the Troupe into the solid team they will need to be if they are to survive an F- 6. Lucid and tremendously entertaining. Sterling (The Hacker Crackdown, 1992, etc.) shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. A cyberpunk winner." - Kirkus Review, 1994. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1080. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
HEAVY WEATHER.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Kent Bash, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Sterling. Introduction by James Gunn. "Roy Burnell likes his job; he travels the globe for World Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, an agency that researches, registers, and attempts to protect fine architecture from the dangers of wars that have broken out in Europe and Asia. While inspecting a cathedral in Budapest, Burnell encounters another danger of the 21st century: memory pirates. Ten years of his architectural knowledge and sexual experiences have been stolen from him, packaged, and offered up for sale on the e-mnemonicvision black market..." - Kirkus Review, 1 June, 1994. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.
HEAVY WEATHER.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1994]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Novel of the future with the weather out of control in a world of ecological disaster. An "... inventive ride into the future with a strange group of brilliant outlaws -- part research team, part hacker cult. They call themselves the Storm Troupe and they hack heavy weather. They chase the monster storms that twist erratically across the Southwestern badlands laid to waste by the greenhouse effect. HEAVY WEATHER vividly depicts a world wasted by ecological disaster, fueled by a black market in everything from semi-legal narcotics and privatized currency to human organs, populated by a cast of characters living on the edge of civilization ... Equipped with military-surplus 'smart' vehicles, networked laptop computers, and virtual-reality gear, the Storm Troupe is chasing the ultimate storm, an atmospheric trophy of apocalyptic proportions: the F-6 tornado." - publisher's blurb. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1080. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
INVOLUTION OCEAN.
NY: Jove, 1977. Wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. "A memoir of the baroque adventures and moral education of a young man who joins the crew of a dustwhaler, a ship that sails upon a sea of dust within a vast crater, seventy miles deep, on a waterless planet, in search of a mysterious prey; the influence of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) is clear throughout." - Colin Greenland and John Clute, SFE (online).
ISLANDS IN THE NET.
New York: Arbor House, 1988. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
ZEITGEIST.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Satirical novel of the marketing of pop culture and the shallowness of it. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1084].
ZEITGEIST.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2000]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A borderline SF road novel set in 1999 that satirizes the shallow nature and marketing of pop culture. America is authoritarian dystopia. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1084].