Ascendancies

Bruce Sterling is a writer, critic and self-styled futurist who has spent more than three decades stirring up science fiction. This anthology gathers his work from 1976 through 2007 into one volume. Readers meet the Shaper and Mechanist factions, the posthuman rivals whose conflict he developed in the Schismatrix universe, alongside the satirical adventures of Leggy Starlitz and the Chattanooga Stories. Taken together, the pieces show how far his imagination has ranged over three decades of writing.