《Dori Bangs 》作者：- Bruce Sterling【EPUB】

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BRUCE STERLING Dori Bangs One of the most powerful and innovative new talents to enter SF in recent years a man with arigorously worked-out and aesthetically convincing vision of what the future may have in storefor humanity Bruce Sterling is as yet better known to the cognoscenti than to the populationat large. If you look behind the scenes though you will find him everywhere and he has hadalmost as much to do as writer critic propagandist aesthetic theorist and tirelesspolemicist with the shaping and evolution of SF in the 80s as Michael Moorcock did with theshaping of SF in the 60s it is not for nothing that many of the other new writers of thedecade refer to him half-ruefully half-admiringly as quotChairman Bruce.quot And if I had to limitmyself to guessing which single author in this book will have the most to do with shaping theSF of the 90s and it would be a damn tough call Id probably in the end have to place mymoney on Sterling. Sterling published his first story in 1976 in an obscure anthology of stories by Texas writerscalled Lone Star Universe and followed it up in 1977 with his first novel Involution Ocean . Neither story or novel attracted much attention nor would his second novel The ArtificialKid in 1980 - indeed both novels remain fundamentally unread even today although inretrospect The Artificial Kid is interesting because it is clearly an early cyberpunk workat the time the few critics who mentioned it seemed to be puzzled by it and dismissed it as agrotesque curiosity. Like many another new writer of the day Sterling would have to wait for quotsteam-engine timequotfor the revolutionary surge of new creative energy that would sweep into the field around 1982before his work was suddenly accessible to and ready to be appreciated by the SF readership.And like many another new writer he first caught on with his short fiction attractinginterest and acclaim with a series of stories he published in the middle 80s in places like The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Omni and Universe . Stories such as quotSwarmquotquotSpider Rosequot and quotSunken Gardensquot were among the strongest