Distraction
by Bruce Sterling
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appears in Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, and Science.
From Bruce Sterling, bestselling author of Heavy Weather and Holy Fire, comes this startling, disturbing, and darkly comic vision of the future of America. It is the story of a once great nation coming apart at the seams while an unending spectacle of politics, science, sex, and corruption has everyone too busy to notice....It's November 2044, an ...
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appears in Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, and Science.
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