Bruce
Sterling “Pirate Utopia” (Tachyon, 2016)
I’m tempted to say that the setup here is quite simple, but
then what really is? What if the futurist takeover of an Italian city in the
1920s had lasted? What if the course of European history had been different?
It’s complex, it’s mesmerizing. My thoughts initially go to Pynchon, with his
love of fictional and not so fictional secret societies. But then there’s also
Burroughs, and his thoughts on lost pirate colonies in the Atlantic.
If you are expecting some sort of cyber-anything romp you
are going to be sorely disappointed.
This is more of a boundary pushing literary piece than what you might
normally think of as SF. I have to say
that personally I admired it more than I enjoyed it.
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