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In an era when life expectancies stretch 100 years or more and adhering to healthy habits is the only way to earn better medical treatments, ancient "post humans" dominate society with their ubiquitous wealth and power. By embracing the safe and secure, 94-year-old Mia Ziemann has lived a long and quiet life. Too quiet, as she comes to realize, for Mia has lost the creative drive and ability to love--the holy fire--of the young. But when a radical new procedure makes Mia young again, she has the chance to break free of society's cloying grasp.
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A hundred years from now, Sterling speculates, medical science has made human life extension almost as commonplace and routine as computer upgrading is today. Gerontocrats rule over a situation in which there is a vast generation gap and the ranks of disenfranchised youth are in permanent rebellion. As the specter of immortality looms, 94-year-old Mia Ziemann undergoes a radical new procedure that makes her physically young again. Leaving the security of her lackluster life, she escapes to Europe to join the ranks of artists, models, and social outsiders--the "vivid" set--in an attempt to put "life" back into living. Her Wanderjahr takes her from San Francisco to Stuttgart, Prague, Rome, the Sinai, and on to Des Moines and Idaho. Sterling imagines a totally plausible and often scary future, full of posthumans, wonderful and bizarre new technologies, and strange drugs. Moreover, it is a full-blown world, in which the Internet has become truly ubiquitous and, oddly, dogs can talk. Benjamin Segedin
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Bruce Sterling steps to the opposite end of the spectrum from some of his earlier high-energy works to write this almost lacksadical piece. Holy Fire is a story of a successful "life extender" who regains her youth and really has nothing to do with it other than go sightseeing. Brilliant paean to Sterling's descriptive talents and imagination, but this is a book where not much happens other than the scenery. I had hoped for a lot more.
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This book has a lot of the trappings of science fiction-- life extending technology, genetically engineered pets, virtual reality games-- but the center, in the end, is the search for emotional completion engaged upon by Mia Ziemann, the protagonist of the book. In this book, Ziemann goes through a radical life extesion procedure that pushes her through the life of the young and vivid and out the other side through to the Holy Fire. Many things impressed me about this book, and I found it very hard to put down, but one of the things I liked the most was the truthfulness of the search for this elusive quality. Mia isn't instantly a great artist. She doesn't discover amazing abilities she should have exploited earlier. All she uncovers (but that 'all' is everything) is the will to carry through and develop for herself. There were frequent loose ends in the book (I felt like the memory palace and the Plato sequences were never developed fully enough) but the book itself was strong enough to carry them. Definitely recommended.
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A true post-human, post-Chapel masterpiece. Light, pleasant, exquisite, intelligent.
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Sterling stops trying too hard and ends up better for it
In recent years Bruce Sterling has been trying too hard to be 'hip' and ahead of the game (one of the problems of cyberpunk and near-future sf in general). Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Sterling's best; one of the all-time great sf novels
Holy Fire is Sterling's best book and occupies a place on my small shelf of sf classics. The compelling hook is Mia's psychological journey in search of satisfying life, in both... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. September 1998 von ljaurbach@erols.com
A Terrific Novel
The first rule of fiction is to be true to the characters and let the story flow from them. While a lot of science fiction focuses on ideas to the detriment of characterization,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juli 1998 von W. A. Norris
Sterling's newest isn't his best, but it's his most _human_
"Holy Fire" features Sterling's most perceptive and haunting take on humanity that he's ever written. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Mai 1998 veröffentlicht
Interesting concept lacking follow-through.
Just finished this one and was left with the feeling that half the text could have been omitted without hurting the story-line. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. April 1998 veröffentlicht
Holy Smoke! Where is the Fire?
I was pretty disappointed with this book. I kept waiting for something to happen. I can write about shacking up with tortured painters in Prague..... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Februar 1998 veröffentlicht
Sterling catches up to Stephenson and Gibson
Since the beginnings of cyberpunk, variations by various authors have tried putting the sci-fi back into Cyberpunk. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. November 1997 von Jules@learnlink.emory.edu
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