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Schismatrix

novel by Sterling

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  • Sterling, Bruce
    In Bruce Sterling

    Sterling’s novel Schismatrix (1985) and the short-story collection Crystal Express (1989) examine the contrasting philosophies of the Shapers, who alter themselves genetically, and the Mechanists, who alter themselves with prosthetic devices. In Islands in the Net (1988), heroine Laura Webster is drawn into the geopolitics of a…

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