Heavy Weather By Bruce Sterling
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This is by far my favorite Sterling book Unlike his earlier Mechist Shaper story cycle this book still seems all too possible Plus I want that Jumping Jeep with the Smart Wheels How awesome was THAT thing Daaaamn. Fiction books about weather At times the clunky prose intrudes as do some of the obvious As you know Bob moments but overall this is solid stuff and still feels like it could happen Bruce Sterling This was a top notch science fiction novel More than a hint of cyberpunk and fully dystopian it is a complex story which is extremely rich in subject matter descriptions science and general literary standard When I first picked it up I thought it might be a fast read but there is so much detail in it and the descriptions are so intricate and absorbing that it turned out to be anything BUT a fast read in the best possible way. Heavy weatherx solar We start in a dodgy private clinic in Mexico Alex Unger has admitted himself for we are not quite sure but it is clearly dodgy and very expensive The descriptions of the clinic and it s medical procedures are pretty lurid and wholly fascinating In the last part Alex submits to having his lungs filled with weird blue fluid to clean them At this point Janey Unger his estranged sister appears of the scene and pretty much kidnaps him out of the clinic with her military surplus weird spider car I kind of want one like it All this section is very very cyberpunk in flavour good old school cyberpunk in the best possible way. Heavy weather plan The cybernetic future science is a theme all the way through the story but after Janey acquires Alex the tone changes dramatically Janey has thrown in with a Storm Troupe and together they chase heavy weather throughout Texas They live a rough life in the post apocalyptic landscape of the impossibly arid landscape that North America has become and the description of their lifestyle while not a primary focus is excellent The primary focus is the weather they chase with details of how they hack the weather systems chase it record it and get the information out there. Heavy weather boats Slowly we learn about Alex s condition and the condition of this post apocalyptic world we learn that the Troupe are chasing an F6 a major league storm that has never before been seen but has been modelled as likely to come into being soon This is totally the book for anyone who follows the Higgins Storm Chasers as well as anyone who is fascinated by scary weather and it s consequences because it turns out an F6 does developI enjoyed the writing it is strong dynamic and as I said before very rich in the minutiae of future technology and details The way the characters get a slow reveal is also excellent at first Alex comes across as a kind of junky one that is into medical procedures rather than dope but still a junky As the novel progresses we learn about him and I love the way he develops not so much AS a character rather INTO a very complex character His sister goes through a similar transformation Janey is kind of psycho at first encounter obviously running on a high energy low tolerance Her reasons for dragging her younger brother into the Troupe seem obscure at first but they do slowly resolve as the story progresses Also the incredibly dysfunctional relationship between Alex and Janey develops slowly and very convincingly. Heavy weather software for windows 10 Reading wise while I enjoyed it from the start the story actually got better and better as the novel progressed with the big storm being just as dramatic as promised but with a host of secondary plots and characters and about the world political system than one would expect from the early charters Great ending GREAT Anything after the F6 should really have been a let down but the author manages to make the ending as hard hitting as the rest of the text and extremely satisfying Bruce Sterling Bruce Sterling s Heavy Weather presents a fully realized vision of the seemingly inevitable future of our planet where massive storms caused by climate change occur frequently where entire areas have become uninhabitable and their inhabitants have been displaced West Texas in the book and where governments have fallen apart and lawlessness runs rampant The only thing he seems to have gotten wrong about this future is the year in Heavy Weather these events have all occurred by 2031 the year the book is set in In reality it will be later than that but we ve already seen signs that we re destined for such a fate In this story Juanita Jane Unger is a storm chaser with an organization known as the Storm Troupe they call themselves Storm Troupers heh Juanita rescues her brother Alex from a black market health clinic and takes him against his will from his drifting miserable life of perpetual sickness into the Troupe where together they will try to hunt the mathematically predicted but theoretically impossible F 6 tornado Such a storm would be the largest and most devastating the world has ever seen But does it really exist Can Jane and Alex survive it And what will the world look like when it s over This was an interesting book and overall I liked it though it was very boring at times as Sterling spends large segments outlining things like financial collapses and the rise of private currency He also dropped a ton of storm and meteorological terminology in this book explaining very little of it At times this made it hard to even visualize what he was describing It s almost like you have to be a meteorologist to fully understand this book I also didn t like how little of this book was actually chasing storms The book starts out very exciting but then meanders into boring subplots involving the Troupers and offers such storylines as Jane wondering if she should have sex while she has a yeast infection and ultimately doing so Gross On the plus side I really liked Alex s character and the book is very well written The ending and epilogue close things out on a good note as well and I found them to be very touching and relatablea nice little exploration of the value of life even in the aftermath of disaster and of the importance and meaning of being part of a family The funniest thing about this book is that Sterling is so prescientunbelievably so actuallyto the point where he predicted many things that actually came to pass and to where this book as a result feels like it almost could have been written yesterday instead of in 1994 But then somehow in Sterling s future there are still fax machines Lol Apparently this is also the case in another of his books which I own but haven t read yet Islands in the Net so I guess for whatever reason despite his otherwise impressive prescience he somehow couldn t predict the fall of that painfully obviously dinosaur technology Overall an interesting and decent read but for me this one was a bit of a disappointment given my high expectations for it. Heavy weather sailing books 5 stars Bruce Sterling Fun Bruce Sterling novel about post apocalyptic group of dubious scientists chasing tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma in search of the ultimate tornado that would be so big that it would be permanent and open a vortex into space Somewhat of a sci fi comedy as well Bruce Sterling Heavy Weather is Twister in book form pure and simple In some ways the parallels are amazing The book and the movie came out within two years of each other can t remember which came first Both works depict a storm chasing group in the midwest whose lead protagonist is trying to prove a theory Both even depictflying cows Sterling is one of the best known cyberpunk authors but its important to realize that this book is not cyberpunk in any real sense It is post apocalyptic in the Mad Max sense So write Twister as a book and change the setting to a near future environmental post apocalyptic scenario add in a dash of medical issues and you ve got a good bit of Heavy Weather. 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055357292X |
9780553572926 |
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