num_pages: 552
description: Polemicist, provocateur, futurist, and visionary in residence, Bruce Sterling has been personally sharpening the cutting edge of science fiction for more than 30 years. From tales of The Shaper/Mechanist to Leggy Starlitz to his Chattanooga Stories, this anthology spans the gamut of Sterlings works from 1976 to 2007.Swarm --Spider Rose --Cicada queen --Sunken gardens --Twenty evocations --Green days in Brunei --Dinner in Audoghast --The compassionate, the digital --Flowers of Edo --The little magic shop --Our neural Chernobyl --We see things differently --Dori Bangs --Hollywood Kremlin --Are you for 86? --The littlest jackal --Deep eddy --Bicycle repairman --Taklamakan --The sword of Damocles --Maneki Neko --In paradise --The blemmye's strategem --Kiosk
language: English
title: Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling
titlecomplete: Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk
ratings_count: 220
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novelette
publisher: Subterranean Pr