"Vivid, dense, powerful imagery β¦ hard to put down!" -- _Washington Post _ "A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia." -- Bruce Sterling "John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virul
Eclipse Penumbra
β Scribed by John Shirley
- Publisher
- Dover Publications;Dover Pubns
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 048681792X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Vivid, dense, powerful imagery β¦ hard to put down!" -- _Washington Post
_ "A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia." -- Bruce Sterling
"John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virulent. A Carrier." -- William Gibson
With Eclipse Penumbra , the second volume in John Shirley's cyberpunk trilogy, A Song Called Youth returns to the World War III era, in which a nuclear strike has decimated Europe. The survivors are dominated by the Christian Fascist Second Alliance, a fundamentalist international security organization attempting to impose apartheid across Europe. Their master plan for a new world order, Project Total Eclipse, involves seizing control of FirStep, an orbiting space colony with the potential to extend their domination throughout the world. All that stands in their way are the rebels of the New Resistance, a gang...
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