(#106184) THE ARTIFICIAL KID. Bruce Sterling.

THE ARTIFICIAL KID. New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A "first-person far-future picaresque, whose, shockproof milieu of glamorized youth, martial arts and omnipotent technology recalls the early work of Samuel R. Delany; but the novel also looks forward to the Cyberpunk subgenre ..." - Colin Greenwood and John Clute, SFE (online). The author's second book, preceded by INVOLUTION OCEAN (1977). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-537. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 403. Top edge of text block lightly foxed, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket with a bit of scuffing to black background ink, but no loss of color. (#106184).

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