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Why hack computers when you can hack nature? Sterling's Storm Troupe lives in a post-greenhouse world ravaged by monster storms and finds itself hacking the ultimate storm: the F-6 tornado. No one in the Troupe, not even it's brilliant, driven leader, guesses the real nature of the F-6 or the shadowy forces unleashed in its twisting fury. Not until it is too late...
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In 2031, mankind has ravaged the climate, and tornadoes roam the Texas plains. Following them are the Storm Troupers, a nomadic group of hackers led by a charismatic mathematician. They are attempting to predict the F-G, a supertornado that may overwhelm the entire world. Alex, the brother of one of the Troupers, must battle the heavy weather and his own desperate illness as he attempts to find his own place in the Troupe and the world. Sterling moves far beyond cyberpunk in this tornado-paced story, exploring not only humanity's relationship with the planet but also the intricate connections and bonds of a group of people dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. Dennis Winters
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In "Heavy Weather" Bruce Sterling attempts to construct a storyline around a bunch of very interesting "futureshock" concepts. Unfortunately the concept is better than the execution. The plot alternately plods and accelerates, and its two main characters are not the most likable in fiction, particularly that of Jane/Juanita. After only adequately building the suspense for almost 300 pages, the ending totally wimps out, with some of its key action "off-stage". Doesn't anyone know how to end a story any more? While this book offers some interesting parts, there is too much speculation and not enough fiction in this speculative fiction.
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Sterling is one of the few current cyberpunk/scifi writers who seems to work with real characters rather than new ideas. Despite an occasionally messy plot point, this book delivers some of the most interesting speculative fiction around. The German-Mexican brother sister pair-- Jane and Alex-- are full and complex people and rather than simply acting out some kind of mythic archetype they move in this futurescape the way you'd expect real people to move. The sense of scene is also rich and full, with the cultural details full of verisimilitude. Perhaps not my favorite Sterling, but still a great read.
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Sterling manages to integrate nature with Cyber... And without excessive tech.
The story in Heavy Weather manages to avoid the usual shortcoming of Cyberpunk (Which this book certainly is) - It uses technology to make the story possible, rather than being about technology. Inside the text is certainly enough entertaining garage technology to thrill an avid cyberpunk author, and nothing we are unlikely to see in the next ten years. The tech has limitations that are believable rather than seeming to be thrown in at the last moment.
The story winds through the personal and public lives of a series of stormchasers, a group of people who make it their lives to wander after the semimythical F6 tornado. The characters appear three-dimensional (though at times the inflation of said folks feels slightly forced, rather than merely appearing in the text) and react in what seems to be realistic ways (based on what you know of them.)
As a technoweenie, though, my favorite feature of the book was the tech, and the causal immersion of it into the storyline. Whatever else you say about the book, the use of technology is smooth - From the smartwheels (quickly becoming everyone's favorite thing to insert into a book) to the spraycan of glue, the terminology ("Structure hits", "Hack").
All in all, the book comes out as one of the most integrated pieces of fiction I've read recently, let alone in the Cyberpunk genre. 8/10, which on the Martin scale is high marks indeed.
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Cyberpunk in Texas!
This is quite readable--a cyberpunk book that doesn't take place in a huge urban sprawl, and the data being stolen is from Mother Nature, who never gives up secrets easily. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. April 2000 von Timothy Lehnerer
Well it started well
But just at about the halfway poin the execution kind of dies, and as much as I like Sterling,the writeing style ends up comeing off as sort of a Gibson knock off
Am 24. August 1999 veröffentlicht
dusty cyberpunk
Finally a cyberpunk novel that is not as sleek and fast as most. While you read it you can almost feel the sand and dust between the pages. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Mai 1999 von hayoflink@hotmail.com
Good Imagination but not a good story teller
Bruce Sterling really missed a chance of writing a very good book. He took a extremely detailed and imaginative idea and put it in a simple and uneffective storyline. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
A very good spin on Cyberpunk
Bruce Sterling took the familar sub-genre of Cyberpunk and carried it to new terrain, literally. The story takes place primarily in West Texas and up Tornado Alley, with a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Mega-Neat: Think "Twister" meets _Logan's Run_
William Gipson's terrible book _The Neromancer_ turned me off to cyberpunk for a very long time. _Heavy Weather_ has brought me back. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. November 1998 von Nickie (wolfsong21@aol.com)
A keeper that stays with you.
This book slipped up on me. In 1997/98 El Nino was leading to many of the meterological concepts that are in the book becoming common knowledge through news analyses. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. August 1998 von hharper@valdosta.edu
Like a bad movie that becomes a parody of itself...
The first-and will remain the only- book I've read by Sterling. Characters have no understanding of the "why" they do, let alone the what. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Sophomoric writing make this unreadable
Flat characters and pedestrian prose make this a real sleeper. While there may be action, action, action, the characters are juvenile and appear to be going nowhere. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Februar 1998 veröffentlicht
An Excellent Forecast for "Heavy Weather"
"Heavy Weather" by: Bruce Sterling.
After completing this book, I felt deeply satisfied. Lesen Sie weiter...
After completing this book, I felt deeply satisfied. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. September 1997 von LoFiCat@aol.com
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