Schismatrix Plus

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Published Jan. 25, 2021 by Brilliance Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-7135-6280-1
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4 stars (3 reviews)

In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.

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5 stars

Science fiction author Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus is a collection of stories that explore the future of humanity. Sterling paints a picture of a future where humanity has left Earth behind and now lives in space. The stories follow the lives of people who are living in this future and how they are dealing with the changes that have happened to humanity.

The stories in this collection are well written and offer a look at a future that is both exciting and scary. Sterling does a good job of showing how humanity might adapt to living in space and the changes that would happen to us as a result. The stories are also thought-provoking and offer food for thought on what the future might hold for humanity.

Overall, Schismatrix Plus is an excellent collection of stories that offer a glimpse into a future that is both fascinating and frightening. Bruce …

Review of 'Schismatrix Plus' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

It's clearly early Sterling, but you can see the bones of his themes there -- world building led by a politician and thought leader rather than a technologist, bizarre pointillist relationship patter, the youthful mad urge to self-immolate, the tendency of the old to placid routine to better hide their terrifying competence in the face of chaos.

That being said, there's mawkishness in here as well -- the conflict between Abelard and Constantine is manufactured and handled like a set piece and it would be damn near impossible to confuse identities and pasts given the ubiquity of DNA and general curiosity of the public -- but it stands up much better than most other futureshock.