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Distraction A Novel

Hardcover • 1998 • English

Distraction A Novel

By Bruce Sterling

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About the book

From Bruce Sterling, bestselling author of Heavy Weather and Holy Fire, comes this startling, disturbing, and darkly comic vision of the future of America. It is the story of a once great nation coming apart at the seams while an unending spectacle of politics, science, sex, and corruption has everyone too busy to notice.... It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The federal government is broke, cities are privately owned, the military is shaking down cit...Show more

Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction
Narrative theme: Politics
Narrative theme: Social issues

Book details

ISBN

9780553104844

Publisher

Bantam Books

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Distraction A Novel

Format

Hardcover

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