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More reviews and recommendations at http: It gives us glimpses into Leng's state of mind at various important moments in his life, but his mind is chaotic. Following humankind's ascent into the stars, Sterling creates two competing directions for our evolutionary path. His life is used as a focal point and catalyst! Dec 30, Chip rated it it was ok Shelves: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Sure, they focus on the same cast but there wasn't a whole lot to hold on to. In the years during Lindsays' catatonia, the expansion of settlements throughout the Solar System has seen an economy in huge surplus; with abundant wealth, expensive and prolonged terraforming efforts are first being considered.

Feb 28, Adam Shand rated it it was amazing.

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There schhismatrix 94 customer reviews and 95 customer ratings. This book has been on my list after reading an excellent short story by Sterling dealing with this same universe.

Schizmatrix Thousands of Digital Comics. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Bruce Sterling 's Schismatrix is to Neuromancer what Gormenghast is to The Lord of the Ringsat least as far as its place in the Cyberpunk canon is concerned.

Honestly, I scgismatrix like the first pages of so; it was too cyber-punky and I have read enough of that. Freed from all material and social limitations schismatix imprint their mystical freedom on a boundless cosmic blackboard, people file patents and trade stocks. I picked up this book because I couldn't remember it from the first time I had read it, twenty years ago. The Shapers, who prefer genetic enhancements, and the Mechanists, who rely on prosthetics.

The two of them work to promote peaceful coexistence between the Shaper militants and the Mechanist pirates, but after several months of conflict, espionage, murders and sabotages, open fighting breaks schis,atrix.

Like Constantine, he loses the woman he loves early in their relationship and tries to fill the hole in his heart by having her cloned.

Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Sterling's future history, even though it consists of only a single novel and a handful of stories, still feels utterly plausible to me twenty schismatrrix after I first encountered it. Dec 30, Justin rated it it was amazing. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. This is a good science fiction novel, but it is very heavy and in the end I appreciated the short stories in the back better than the actual Schismatrix part.

If you're considering reading this book, be forewarned - information overload is the name of the game. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrixplus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction. Imaginative, unforgettable, and even absurdly comical scenes are in abundance on this odyssey. The main social development in the solar system of the novel -- filled with inhabited moons, planetoids, asteroids, and artificial habitats -- is the split between Shapers who retool the human genome for increased healthy, intelligence, and agility and Mechanists who retool their bodies with all sorts of mechanical and computational augmentations.

Schisnatrix, filled with absurd humor and grotesque surreal visions, as human future and form breaks and cascades into increasing odd shapes.

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AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. The Earth kicked both factions out at some point in the past and is now considered interdicted by both. I'm reading it twenty-five years too late.

Since "Neuromancer" and the accompanying cyberpunk explosion, Sterling and many others has been unfairly relegated to Williams Gibson's shadow.

Lindsay and Mavrides become powerful Shaper leaders, thanks to their early contact with the Investors.

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Scbismatrix 06, Terry rated it it was amazing Shelves: Published December 1st by Ace Books first published January 1st Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers.

They apparently don't like each other but it's never made clear why. Opposed to the Shapers are the Mechanists who, as their name implies, are relying upon machines to lengthen their lives and repair the frail human form. You can make popcorn and fly in space with sublight speed in less than 2.

This story takes place in Czarina-Kluster, the floating city-state built around the engineless hulk of an Investor ship that imprisons the disgraced Investor Queen whom Lindsay blackmails in Schismatrix, and picks up pretty much where the novel leaves off; Wellspring, the enigmatic terraforming advocate whom Lindsay coached in the art of cultivating a personal schusmatrix, has successfully risen to prominence in Czarina-Kluster's government, and is busily directing the terraforming of Mars.

The novel takes place over the course of approximately years schismatri follows the long career and myriad adventures of diplomat Abelard Lindsay.