Heavy Weather - Hardcover

Bruce Sterling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553093932 ISBN 13: 9780553093933

Publisher: Spectra, 1994

Synopsis

Forty years hence, a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists called "The Storm Troupers" track a group of massive tornadoes in Texas--a result of the greenhouse effect--in preparation for the worst storm in history.

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Review:

Why hack computers when you can hack nature? Sterling's Storm Troupe lives in a post-greenhouse world ravaged by monster storms and finds itself hacking the ultimate storm: the F-6 tornado. No one in the Troupe, not even it's brilliant, driven leader, guesses the real nature of the F-6 or the shadowy forces unleashed in its twisting fury. Not until it is too late...

From the Inside Flap:

Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever. Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect.  Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force roam the open spaces of Texas.  And on their trail are the Storm Troupers: a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists who live to hack heavy weather -- to document it and spread the information as far as the digital networks will stretch, using virtual reality to explore the eye of the storm.  Although it's incredibly addictive, this is no game.  The Troupers' computer models suggest that soon an "F-6" will strike -- a tornado of an intensity that exceeds any existing scale; a storm so devastating that it may never stop.  And they're going to be there when all hell breaks loose.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0553093932
• ISBN 13: 9780553093933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310