{"id":10192,"date":"2002-05-29T06:58:43","date_gmt":"2002-05-29T11:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10192"},"modified":"2023-03-25T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T12:01:26","slug":"bruce-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2002\/05\/29\/bruce-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI love him, as a writer that is. Always thought he was far better then that poseur, William Gibson. He is what Neal Stephenson wants to be when he grows up. Sterling&#8217;s a cool hip technodude, so of course he Has his own <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.infinitematrix.net\/columns\/sterling\/\">blog<\/A>. Also has his own &#8220;megalomanic but it might just work and at least it&#8217;s interesting&#8221; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.viridiandesign.org\/\">project<\/A> for world improvement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll of which is just a preamble to say that I&#8217;ve just read two of his novels, <A HREF=\"\/books\/heavy-weather.html\">Heavy Weather<\/A> and <A HREF=\"\/books\/involution-ocean.html\">Involution Ocean<\/A> together with one of Tom Holt&#8217;s comedies, <A HREF=\"\/books\/wish-you-were-here.html\">Wish you Were Here<\/A>. Made the usual sort of comments at the usual place, do take a look.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter that, you could do worse then download his 1992 non-fiction book about what happened when the Secret Service went on a <A HREF=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020212035349\/http:\/\/www.eff.org\/Publications\/Bruce_Sterling\/Hacker_Crackdown\/\"><br \/>\nHacker Crackdown<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love him, as a writer that is. Always thought he was far better then that poseur, William Gibson. He is what Neal Stephenson wants to be when he grows up. Sterling&#8217;s a cool hip technodude, so of course he Has his own blog. Also has his own &#8220;megalomanic but it might just work and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[2741,2799],"class_list":["post-10192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-science-fiction","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-tom-holt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}