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  • File Size: 537 KB
  • Print Length: 34 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: 40k (September 8, 2010)
  • Publication Date: September 8, 2010
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0042G0RRY
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  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,753 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Seemed like it ended before it really started
By Amazon Customer on February 19, 2015
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I was expecting a lot more. The story just seemed to end abruptly
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Sterling still has it! Great novellette, well worth the price.
By christopher neitzert on May 19, 2014
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Nope, no spoilers here, but this short story is worth way more than the two bucks i payed to download it, for it is an existential mind-ogle. Such to the scale that I would like to see it made into a movie, or better yet a full length novel. Sterling still has "it", if you are a fan and haven't read this, do it now. If you are not a fan, but enjoy dystopian post-industrial age cyberthrillers then you will enjoy this and at this price, how can it be wrong.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
thought provoking read
By D Earle on April 1, 2011
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This is an interesting story about a technology journalist who receives the greatest tipoff in his career, only to be taken into an alternate universe.

It is thought provoking about what events do and do not shape our histories and what alternative histories might exist. The story revolves around the much touted idea of a black swan event, which totally disrupts the sequence of history - or the absence of such events.

The writing is a bit rough in places and at times I had reread sections to establish the flow of events. But this made up for by the imaginative content.

I have one general gripe with alternate universe stories. Why is it that authors propose that alternative universes are going to be populated by genetically identical people, living very different lives? Patterns of probability suggest that if alternate universes existed, the societies may have some general resemblance, but the chances of two people being genetically the same are very, very low. Anyway, there is a little twist in this story which might just redeem the storyline from this problem.
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SPOILER ALERT!
By gmitch on December 14, 2013
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Want to witness a mob style hit? This story is typical out of body cyber punk (at first). People use technology to be where and who they are. Physical beings/avatars live and work in surreal settings. It's possible to piss people off on the cyber punk plain. I did not see it coming...(?). It was like the Russian mob a la 'Training Day'.
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Short and sweet
By Henry H on December 19, 2012
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Moving threw various alternative realities on ca see how Europe nay look with only slight changes were happening in history. Cyberpunk became reality and as a writing style it is diapering. Nice to have another one.
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Fan. Disappointed.
By Chris S. on May 31, 2015
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Just not sure what this was really about. Seemed like a short story the author wrote for himself. Not worth reading.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Fundamentally misleading marketing
By Richard Hughes on June 15, 2012
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This is a brief short story which is about essentially nothing and goes nowhere. There is no central point, no conflict occurs, no scenarios are resolved. It is in no fashion 'a cyberpunk story'. I felt cheated for having purchased it. It is a skeletal assemblage of science-fiction buzzwords revolving around nothing. Do not purchase it.

This is incredibly bizarre to me that this story was as bad as it was, as Bruce Sterling is usually really good and this is just god awful.
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Enjoyable short story
By Chris Barker on February 26, 2013
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Its not too often you see the old SF trope of interdimentional travel done well, this is a case where it is done right and with an up to date twist.
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