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Distraction by Bruce Sterling

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The Caryatids, March 2009
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Art Of Alex Gross, February 2007
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Visionary In Residence: Stories, March 2006
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Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets), September 2005
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Zeitgeist, August 2001
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Distraction, October 1999
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future, June 1999
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The Hacker Crackdown, October 1998
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Holy Fire, October 1997
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Schismatrix Plus, December 1996
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Heavy Weather, December 1995
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Difference Engine, The, January 1992
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DISTRACTION
By: Bruce Sterling

Spectra
October 1999
On Sale: October 5, 1999
544 pages
ISBN: 0553576399
EAN: 9780553576399
Mass Market Paperback
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It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A political spin doctor, Oscar has always made things look good. Now he wants to make a difference. But Oscar has a skeleton in his closet. His only ally: Dr. Greta Penninger, a gifted neurologist at the bleeding edge of the neural revolution. Together they're out to spread a very dangerous idea whose time has come. And so have their enemies: every technofanatic, government goon, and laptop assassin in America. Oscar and Greta might not survive to change the world, but they'll put a new spin on it.