Distraction By Bruce Sterling Epub Download
It's 2044 A.D. and America has gone to the dogs. The federal authorities is broke and, with sixteen political events combating for power, things aren't likely to improve soon. The Air Pressure, quick on funding, is setting up roadblocks to shake down citizens and disguising its techniques as a bake sale.
The governor of Louisiana, Green Huey, is participating in illegal genetic research and has arrange his own personal biker army. The newly elected president of the U.S., Leonard Two Feathers, is contemplating a declaration of war against the Netherlands, a country that finds itself half underneath water resulting from global warming.
Attempting desperately to hold issues collectively is Oscar Valparaiso, political marketing consultant and spin physician extraordinaire, who has simply engineered the election of a brand new liberal senator for the state of Massachusetts, only to discover that his boss suffers from extreme bipolar disorder. In search of a brand new problem, Oscar takes a job with the U.S. Senate Science Committee.
His first project is to analyze the scandal-ridden Collaboratory, a big, spaceshiplike federal lab in East Texas. Oscar, himself the results of an illegal Colombian cloning experiment, immediately falls head over heels for a gawky however good young Nobel laureate, with whom he units out to save lots of each the lab and the nation from Green Huey. In his latest novel (after Holy Hearth), Sterling once again proves himself the reigning master of close to-future political SF. This is a powerful and, at times, very humorous novel that should add considerably to Sterling's already appreciable reputation.
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