Heavy Weather
by Bruce Sterling

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Book Review: Strong concept and interesting ideas make this a good one
Summary: 5 Stars

Still, the sad fact remains that Heavy Weather did the topic first, better, and pulled it off with more ease and ideas. But this isn't a comparsion review, so let's forget "Twister" and talk about Heavy Weather. With this book, it appears that Sterling breaks away from the cyberpunk roots of Gibson and others, but at the same time he remains true to those same routes.

Heavy Weather does not have computers, or people fighting the huge Man who is trying to keep the little guy down using only their knowledge and wits. There are elements of that, of course, but Sterling tries to convey something different here, a sense of the weather as a force. Computer, they are constructed by men, and we can understand them. Who can understand the weather? And that is the main pursuit of the Storm Troupe, to understand, explain, and comprehend, all while having a little fun at the same time.

Sterling should be congratulated on such a fine book that clearly was ahead of its time, seeing the success of "Twister" a few years later (oops I said I wasn't going to compare. Oh, well). It ranks among his finest

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