“A very exciting coming-of-age story in a wild future America. “So believable are the speculations that.one becomes convinced that the world must and will develop into what Sterling has predicted.” - Science Fiction Age Sterling shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. Sterling hacks the future, and an elegant hack it is.” - Locus “A remarkable and individual sharpness of vision. But even their visionary leader can’t predict the danger on the horizon when a volatile new member joins their ranks and faces a trial by fire: a massive tornado unlike any the world has seen before. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by climate change. The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. 'The future Sterling traces is plausible and provocative, particularly his consideration of several contrasting cultures, and of the disenfranchised who are unable to become 'post-human.' Those interested in serious speculative conversation set within a very strange near-future will find this much to their taste.A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine. 'The future Sterling traces is plausible and provocative, particularly his consideration of several contrasting cultures, and of the disenfranchised who are unable to become 'post-human.' Those interested in serious speculative conversation set within a very strange near-future will find this much to their taste.' - Publishers Weekly 'A patented Sterling extra-special.' - Newsday

'An intellectual feat, it is also a treat for the spirit and the senses.' - Wired Holy Fire may very well be best work.' - Speculiction In the end, Holy Fire is one of the most interesting, imaginative, and subtly humorous-and relevant for it-novels the cyberpunk/post-human era has produced. Art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and youth and aging bounce around the story, the characters, and their conversations in imaginative, engaging fashion. 'Ideas-big ideas-lurk beneath Mia's romp through Sterling's delightfully imagined newly post-human Earth. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. Existence itself has become relatively easy-if boring. In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this 'haunting and lyrical triumph' from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus ( Time).

Holy fire by bruce sterling