Four best friends return home to find more than they ever dared dream of in this delightful quartet from bestselling authors **Maisey Yates**, **Caitlin Crews**, **Jackie Ashenden** and **Nicole Helm**. When they were girls, best friends Hope, Charity, Pru and Kit made a pact. If, at thirty, th
A good old-fashioned future: stories
โ Scribed by Bruce Sterling
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Spectra/Bantam Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307796809
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers.
They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity.
A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life.
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