The caryatids
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, 2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm.
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, 2009.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Radmila and Sonjasupport the weight of a near-future world. They are the last of seven clone sisters created by a mother accused of Balkan war crimes, now exiled in orbit. We're 50-some years into the future, and the planet is split into an international, symbiotic competition between the hypernetworked Acquis, who train distressed, abandoned children into tight-knit cadres of activists, and the Dispensation, more sedate, mannered and cosmo-business in its orientation.Vera works with an Acquis team remediating the Croatian island of Mljet, laid waste by toxic dumping and the rising waters of global warming. The Acquis technology is extreme but humanly adapted: the users wear bonewear (amplified skeletal suits that allow tremendous feats of speed and strength) and spex (laser-equipped eyeshades that hook their wearers into a postencyclopedic wonderworld of information. In a beautifully realized and Huxleyan Los Angeles, Radmila has fit too snugly into a Dispensation Family, but California is being squeezed between a geological devil and the surging deep blue sea. The Family sees these changes in terms of economic potential, and they track real estate values by the second: Norwalk is glamorous; beach property is cheap.Sonja, dotted with the shrapnel of her own self-destructive past, performs medical and social work in the middle of a constantly rebirthing China. Due to female infanticide, there are far more men than women in Chinathe reverse of Russia, where men die youngand Sonja hooks up with a Gobi jihadist who indulges both her sexual appetites and her political ambitions.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sterling, B. (2009). The caryatids . Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sterling, Bruce. 2009. The Caryatids. Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sterling, Bruce. The Caryatids Ballantine Books, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sterling, Bruce. The Caryatids Ballantine Books, 2009.
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