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DISTRACTION
by Sterling, Bruce
- Used
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (18862)
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1998]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (18862). "In the mid-twenty-first century, political operative Oscar Valparaiso, himself a clone, investigates a scandal-ridden federal laboratory in East Texas. Meanwhile, Leonard Two Feathers, the newly elected president of the United States, considers declaring war on the rapidly submerging Netherlands, and Green Huey, the corrupt governor of Louisiana, engages in illegal genetic research while establishing his own private biker army. This brilliantly done example of satiric SF shows Sterling at his post-cyberpunk best." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1079. The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was a 1999 Hugo nominee for best novel. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
Synopsis
Distraction is the diversion of attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. Distraction is caused by one of the following: lack of ability to pay attention; lack of interest in the object of attention; greater interest in something other than the object of attention; or the great intensity, novelty or attractiveness of something other than the object of attention.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18862
- Title
- DISTRACTION
- Author
- Sterling, Bruce
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (18862)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
- Date Published
- [1998]
- Keywords
- SF
Terms of Sale
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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