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Distraction

Bruce Sterling

1998439 pagesabout 7–10 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Bantam Books · 439 pages · ENGISBN 9780553104844
  • 1999Millennium · 439 pages · ENGISBN 9781857988307
  • 1999Spectra · 544 pages · ENGISBN 9780553576399
  • 2000Gollancz · 496 pagesISBN 9781857989281

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.

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