The Zenith Angle A Novel
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
18983
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.04.2005
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
17,6/10,9/2,5 cm
Gewicht
195 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-345-46865-9
“A darkly comic fable of info-war, the black budget, über-geek idealism, and the politics of Homeland Insecurity. Sterling’s grasp of the surfaces of contemporary reality is deftly prehensile; his understanding of what underlies those surfaces is both compelling and important.”
—William Gibson, author of
Pattern Recognition
“Vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights . . . Rockets along like a hijacked airliner heading straight at you, like a flash-worm compromising every unpatched Windows box on the net at once. Lots of books are called ‘thrillers,’ but very few are this thrilling.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
“[Sterling offers] great insights about the inner workings of government, private industry, and the threats that could disrupt the online world as we know it. The Zenith Angle mixes technology, politics, dry humor, and suspense to provide a first-rate read.” —Howard A. Schmidt, former CSO for Microsoft and former Special Adviser for Cyber Security for the Bush Administration
“A Catch-22 for the slashdot generation: a wry, cynical, informed peek at the paranoid world of the post-9/11 cyberspookerati. Buy it, read it, be very afraid.” —Charles Stross, author of Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise
“Perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” — Time
“Known for putting more interesting ideas on one page than most writers include in an entire novel.” — The Seattle Times
“One of America’s best-known science-fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” — Time
“Bitingly satiric—and quite often brilliant.” — The New York Observer
“Known for putting more interesting ideas on one page than most writers include in an entire novel.” — The Seattle Times
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying.” —Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century
“The reigning master of near-future political SF.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Sterling [has a] gift for creating sympathetic yet fallible characters.” — Library Journal
“Vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights . . . Rockets along like a hijacked airliner heading straight at you, like a flash-worm compromising every unpatched Windows box on the net at once. Lots of books are called ‘thrillers,’ but very few are this thrilling.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
“[Sterling offers] great insights about the inner workings of government, private industry, and the threats that could disrupt the online world as we know it. The Zenith Angle mixes technology, politics, dry humor, and suspense to provide a first-rate read.” —Howard A. Schmidt, former CSO for Microsoft and former Special Adviser for Cyber Security for the Bush Administration
“A Catch-22 for the slashdot generation: a wry, cynical, informed peek at the paranoid world of the post-9/11 cyberspookerati. Buy it, read it, be very afraid.” —Charles Stross, author of Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise
“Perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” — Time
“Known for putting more interesting ideas on one page than most writers include in an entire novel.” — The Seattle Times
“One of America’s best-known science-fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” — Time
“Bitingly satiric—and quite often brilliant.” — The New York Observer
“Known for putting more interesting ideas on one page than most writers include in an entire novel.” — The Seattle Times
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying.” —Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century
“The reigning master of near-future political SF.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Sterling [has a] gift for creating sympathetic yet fallible characters.” — Library Journal
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