Globalhead — Bruce Sterling

Enter a world where scientists are superstars and gene-hackers unleash "Our Neural Chernobyl," creating drooling geniuses, TV-drugged cats, and gangs of raccoon toughs.

A rock star becomes the voice of the people in a crumbling America...and the ultimate threat to the world's newest superpower in "We See Things Differently"

Politically correct smugglers match wits and high-tech toys with religious fanatics in "Are You for 86?"

In "Jim and Irene," two lost souls--a phone-phreak drifter and a hopeless Russian emigre--drive off the edge of the world...and find connection at last.

And history does a freeze-frame and reverse on the deaths of two hip-culture burnout cases in "Dori Bangs"