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Author
Index
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Bruce
Sterling |
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Title
Index
Z |
Zeitgeist |
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| Year |
2000 |
| Publisher |
Bantam
Spectra |
| ISBN |
0553576410 |
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Synopsis
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It's
1999 in Cyprus, an
ancient island
bejeweled with
blue-helmeted UN
peacekeepers and
littered with
rusting land
mines, corroding
barbed wire, and
illegal sewage
dumps. Here, in
the Turkish half
of the island, the
ever-enterprising
Leggy Starlitz has
alighted, pausing
on his mission to
storm the Third
World with the
"G-7"
girls, the
cheapest, phoniest
all-girl band ever
to wear Wonderbras
and spandex. And
his market is
staring him in the
face: millions of
teenagers trapped
in a world of
mullahs and
mosques, all ready
to blow their
pocket change on
G-7's massive
merchandising
campaign--and to
wildly anticipate
music the group
will never
release.
Leggy's brilliant
plan means doing
business with some
of the world's
most dangerous
people. His
business partner
is the rich and
connected Mehmet
Ozbey, a man with
many identities
and a Turkish
girlfriend whose
beauty and singing
voice could blow
G-7 right
out of the water.
His security chief
is Pulat
Romanevich Khoklov,
who learned to fly
MiG combat jets in
Afghanistan and
now pilots
Milosevic's
personal airplane.
Among these
thieves, schemers,
and killers, Leggy
must act quickly
and decisively.
Bombs are dropping
in Yugoslavia. Y2K
is just around the
corner. And the
only rule to live
by is that the
whole scheme stops
before the year
2000.
But Leggy gets a
surprise when the
daughter he's
never met arrives
on his doorstep. A
major fan of G-7,
she is looking for
a father--and her
search forces
Leggy to examine
his life
before making a
madcap journey in
search of a father
of his own. It's a
detour that puts
his G-7 Zeitgeist
in some real
jeopardy. For in
Istanbul, Leggy's
former partners
are getting
restless, and the
G-7 girls are
beginning to
die.... |
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Review
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Bruce
Sterling is
"perhaps the
sharpest observer
of our
media-choked
culture working
today",
offering haunting
visions of a
future shaped by a
madness of our own
making. His latest
novel is a
startling
tragicomic
spectacle that
takes a
breathtaking look
at a world where
the future is
being chased down
by the past....
Time |
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Credit:
NASA
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Hubble
Approaches
'Final
Frontier'
Detailed
analyses
of
mankind's
deepest
optical
view of
the
universe,
the Hubble
Ultra Deep
Field (HUDF),
by several
expert
teams have
at last
identified
what may
turn out
to be some
of the
earliest
star-forming
galaxies.
These
faint
sources,
circled in
the image
above,
illustrate
how
astronomers
can begin
to explore
when the
first
galaxies
formed and
what their
properties
might be.
The
sensitivity
of
Hubble's
Advanced
Camera for
Surveys (ACS),
combined
with the
penetrating
power of
the Near
Infrared
Camera and
Multi-Object
Spectrometer
(NICMOS),
finally
revealed
these long
sough
faint
galaxies.
The HUDF
shows that
close to a
billion
years
after the
Big Bang
the early
universe
was filled
with dwarf
galaxies,
but no
fully
formed
galaxies
like our
Milky Way.
After
careful
analysis,
they have
been
sorted out
as between
54 and 108
dim, red
smudges
sprinkled
across the
HUDF
image.
From a
hierarchical
point of
view, this
means the
universe
started
out as a
bunch of
"mom
&
pop"
stores,
which
merged
into
businesses,
and then
into giant
corporations
-- the
majestic
galaxies
we see
today. |
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the day
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