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Progress: Second story
First story: eh. Felt like the (short) first chapter of a longer work. The basic idea was cool but there was no there there.
I've always had a fond spot in my heart for Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist universe and I tend to compare things to that. But he's not interested in that type of strictly science-fiction craziness anymore so I have to remember to compare apples to apples with his new work.
by mattg on Apr 24, 2006
First story: eh. Felt like the (short) first chapter of a longer work. The basic idea was cool but there was no there there.
I've always had a fond spot in my heart for Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist universe and I tend to compare things to that. But he's not interested in that type of strictly science-fiction craziness anymore so I have to remember to compare apples to apples with his new work.
by mattg on Apr 24, 2006
Progress: 4th story
Story #2: Just plain great. You can tell Bruce has been hanging out with design students. :)
by mattg on Apr 24, 2006
Story #2: Just plain great. You can tell Bruce has been hanging out with design students. :)
by mattg on Apr 24, 2006
Progress: 4th story
Story #3: Short but sweet. Just sort of the bare bones of a story with the details and voice hung on it.
by mattg on Apr 24, 2006
Story #3: Short but sweet. Just sort of the bare bones of a story with the details and voice hung on it.
by mattg on Apr 24, 2006
Progress: Ribo Zombie story
This story is written with Paul Di Fillipo and you can tell. I've never considered Sterling a standard science fiction writer and this story is mostly standard stuff. You can see the Sterling touches but there's a lot of scifi exposition stuff he doesn't usually do and there's a glossary at the back of the story for pete's sake. I don't recall reading much of DiFillipo's work on his own but the presense of another writer is very evident.
by mattg on Apr 29, 2006
This story is written with Paul Di Fillipo and you can tell. I've never considered Sterling a standard science fiction writer and this story is mostly standard stuff. You can see the Sterling touches but there's a lot of scifi exposition stuff he doesn't usually do and there's a glossary at the back of the story for pete's sake. I don't recall reading much of DiFillipo's work on his own but the presense of another writer is very evident.
by mattg on Apr 29, 2006