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Islands in the Net is a 1988 science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1989, and was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards that same year.
Jun 1, 1988 · Islands in the Net puts one in the unusual, albeit not unheard of, position of an accidental, distant spectator. It is full of spectacles: a roller coaster with its crests and troughs, strings of colored lights, random and bizarre embellishments.
Dec 30, 2014 · In a near-future new age of corporate control, hacker mercenaries, and electronic terrorism, a public relations executive on the rise finds herself caught in the...
The author who, along with William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Rudy Rucker, helped create and define the cyberpunk subgenre imagines a world of tomorrow in Islands in the Net that bears a...
Mar 1, 1989 · Bruce Sterling's 1988 book, Islands in the Net, is a thrilling blend of high tech and low humanity. The glue that binds together this world of data pirates, mercenaries, nanotechnology, weaponry, and post-millennial voodoo is the global electronic net.
The author who, along with William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Rudy Rucker, helped create and define the cyberpunk subgenre imagines a world of tomorrow in Islands in the Net that bears a striking--and disturbing--resemblance to our present-day information-age reality.
Islands in the Net. Bruce Sterling. Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Oct 19, 1989 - Science fiction, American - 396 pages. 6 Reviews. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks...
