Distraction
by Bruce Sterling
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In an America set adrift in the seas of high technology and corruption, a political spin doctor--squeezed out of the candidacy that he constructed--winds up banished to Texas. Once there, he must start over with his dreams of personal power, only this time, his raw material is shaped from a group of scientists in a remote research facility.
Editions of Distraction
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Bantam Dell Pub Group |
Date 1999 |
Price $1.00 |
 Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Bantam Books |
Date 1999 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Good |
Publisher Notes
Imagine a world where the U.S. Army and Navy can't pay their power bills. There's 85% unemployment. The House and Senate are self-appointed and run the whole world. Enter a (mostly) human, hardworking, practical overachiever, his incredibly bizarre neurologist lover, and the bombastic Governor of Louisiana, and what's left of America better hold onto its collective hats.
Media Reviews
"Bruce Sterling's "Distraction"...is so absorbingly new in every detail, so grippingly engaged in with the task of trying to tell us what the world may feel like next century, and so unremittingly hilarious, that it seems far too short. It is Sterling's best novel yet."
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