Schism matrix
Schismatrix is a science fiction - novel by Bruce Sterling in 1985. The novel, several short stories preceded playing in the same world. The novel is primarily concerned with transhumanism , i.e. the various possibilities for artificial further development of humanity and the philosophies or ideologies and political tensions that go with it. There are two different translations in German.
content
The 23rd century solar system is divided between the two factions of humanity, the shapers (in another translation called shaper ), who evolve through genetic engineering and brain manipulation, and the mechanists , who use computers and endoprostheses . The ongoing war between the two factions is ended when an alien civilization takes the stage. The novel is told from the perspective of Abélard Lindsay, a brilliant shaper diplomat who has massively influenced the course of human history several times in the course of his 200-year life.
criticism
- Stephen O'Kane: "Bruce Sterling keeps ... a paradox alive: Schismatrix is full of ideas and powerful images, and yet on a very fundamental level the future - with all the different environmental conditions - is similar to the past. Not easy to read, but often extremely interesting and from time to time even really exciting. "
literature
- Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix. Roman, with an afterword by Michael Nagula , Munich: Heyne , 1989 ISBN 3-453-03145-8
- Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix, novel. Hamburg: Argument Verlag , 2000, (completely re-translated by Hannes Riffel) ISBN 3-886-19958-4
swell
- ↑ Bruce Sterling: Queen of Cicada: Cyperpunk Tales and Others . Munich: Heyne , 1990, ISBN 3-453-04294-8 .
- ↑ See Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1990, Munich: Heyne , ISBN 3-453-03905-X , p. 682