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Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Part of the reason we selected Holy Fire was to continue a vague theme of "drugs" Classic Sci-Fi had noticed in works like Dune, A Scanner Darkly, and Brave New World here, of course, the drugs are primarily medical and carefully-engineered. Sterling more or less created (or at least midwived) the genre of cyberpunk-editing the Mirrorshades anthology, spreading ideology via Cheap Truth (a newsletter that's since been copied online). We began by talking a bit about Sterling, his influence and position in the genre. Our protagonist, a woman in her nineties, undergoes an experimental rejuvenation technique and promptly starts wandering around Europe, spending time with an odd assortment of young anarchists & theorists, fashionistas and artists. For the April meeting of Classic Sci-Fi, we read Holy Fire (1996) by Bruce Sterling.Ĭoming out of the cyberpunk tradition, Holy Fire is a near-future tale in which medical technology and questions of posthumanism loom large. ![]()
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