Polemicist, provocateur, futurist, and visionary in residence, Bruce Sterling has been personally sharpening the cutting edge of science fiction for more than 30 years. From tales of The Shaper/Mechanist to Leggy Starlitz to his Chattanooga Stories, this anthology spans the gamut of Sterlings works from 1976 to 2007.

Swarm --
Spider Rose --
Cicada queen --
Sunken gardens --
Twenty evocations --
Green days in Brunei --
Dinner in Audoghast --
The compassionate, the digital --
Flowers of Edo --
The little magic shop --
Our neural Chernobyl --
We see things differently --
Dori Bangs --
Hollywood Kremlin --
Are you for 86? --
The littlest jackal --
Deep eddy --
Bicycle repairman --
Taklamakan --
The sword of Damocles --
Maneki Neko --
In paradise --
The blemmye's strategem --
Kiosk