Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes in Distraction (Bantam; $23.95), the latest novel from Bruce Sterling, one of America's best-known science-fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre...
That may change. After an early career that mixed such successes as Islands in the Net (1988) with several quickly remaindered efforts, Sterling hit his stride with Heavy Weather (1994), a novel about tornado freaks published two years pre-Twister, and Holy Fire (1996), a haunting meditation on life-extension technology...
...boomer teen he remains at heart and sets it off with the jeans and logoed black T that was the cyberpunk uniform way back when. Examining his life as a middle-aged iconoclast, he cackles with glee at his own half-cracked ideas. Which are manifold. His next novel is a "fantasy technothriller" featuring terrorists and assassins. He contributes to Wired and the Australian magazine World Art and spends loving hours maintaining busy e-mail lists on "dead media," foreign-language science-fiction and postindustrial design. And though he's a proper punk skeptic when it comes to politics...
...currently in a lawsuit against her school board, seeking the right to use without restrictions an even more contemporary book: The Starr Report. In Rhode Island last June eighth-grade English teacher Brian Cabral was verbally attacked by his principal over a vulgarity in Go Ask Alice, a 1971 novel dealing with drug addiction. The principal conceded he had not read the whole book, which tends to be the case in most book challenges, and Cabral was ultimately cleared in a committee review. "If the kids had not been supportive, I would have left teaching," he says. "It was worse...
...most beloved faux talk-show host. (Sorry, Magic.) In DESIGN, a cool house by Koolhaus. In MUSIC, a magical, defiant album by the woman formerly known as a Fugee. In THEATER, an angry drama from a member of the latest generation of angry young men. In BOOKS, a novel that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, and a biography of the man who pioneered that style. In SPORTS--well, duh. (Sorry, Michael; sorry, Yankees.) And then there are the year's best PEOPLE, or at least the year's most quintessential: 15 who got their 15 minutes...