Saturday, January 24, 2009

Yong (0.5/26): "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling

I'm not actually supposed to be reading any books between September and June. No time, papers to grade, you see. But I cheated, snuck in a quick fix, just another form of procrastination, really. Not even a book, hence the .5, just a short story, technically a novella. Forty pages in an anthology with rather large type, more like twenty, if that. A crappy resolution version can be "Looked Inside" on Amazon, but I found a (probably illicit) copy here. Post-cyber-punk science fiction, they call this stuff. Hugo award winner. Not bad. Some socio-political commentary, takes me back to the days when I read Bicycling magazine. Good for a quick fix. Get yours, too. Okay, back to grading...