Art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and youth and aging bounce around the story, the characters, and their conversations in imaginative, engaging fashion. “Ideas - big ideas - lurk beneath Mia’s romp through Sterling’s delightfully imagined newly post-human Earth. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. Existence itself has become relatively easy - if boring. In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible.
(Dec.Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this “haunting and lyrical triumph” from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus ( Time ). This is a powerful and, at times, very funny novel that should add significantly to Sterling's already considerable reputation. In his latest novel (after Holy Fire), Sterling once again proves himself the reigning master of near-future political SF. Oscar, himself the result of an illegal Colombian cloning experiment, immediately falls head over heels for a gawky but brilliant young Nobel laureate, with whom he sets out to save both the lab and the nation from Green Huey. His first assignment is to investigate the scandal-ridden Collaboratory, a gigantic, spaceshiplike federal lab in East Texas. Looking for a new challenge, Oscar takes a job with the U.S. Trying desperately to hold things together is Oscar Valparaiso, political consultant and spin doctor extraordinaire, who has just engineered the election of a new liberal senator for the state of Massachusetts, only to discover that his boss suffers from severe bipolar disorder. The newly elected president of the U.S., Leonard Two Feathers, is considering a declaration of war against the Netherlands, a country that finds itself half under water due to global warming. The governor of Louisiana, Green Huey, is engaging in illegal genetic research and has set up his own private biker army. The Air Force, short on funding, is setting up roadblocks to shake down citizens and disguising its tactics as a bake sale. The federal government is broke and, with 16 political parties fighting for power, things aren't likely to improve soon.
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