Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.
In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer[...]

A chilling look inside the world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) explains how the misuse of RFID technology could be used to destroy personal privacy, conduct surveillance and tracking of every citizen, radically alter the economy, and promote civil liberty abuses. Reprint. 40,000 first pri[...]

The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have wa[...]

It?s 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, 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 rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex.

His market is staring him in the face: millions[...]

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreadnought[...]

"Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling is[...]

Since it was first published in 2005, "Grimm Fairy Tales" has been one of the hottest independent comics on the market. Featuring some of the most beautiful women in comics, "Grimm Fairy Tales" covers have been turning heads from day one. Collected for the first time here in this beautiful hardcover[...]

Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastics islands floating in the oceans. Untouched old nature is almost nowhere to be found. This book explores our changing notion of nature. How nature h[...]