For the April meeting of Classic Sci-Fi, we read Holy Fire (1996) by Bruce Sterling.Coming out of the cyberpunk tradition, Holy Fire is a near-future tale in which medical technology and questions of posthumanism loom large. Our protagonist, a woman in her nineties, undergoes an experimental rejuvenation technique and promptly starts wandering around Europe, spending time with an odd assortment of young anarchists & theorists, fashionistas and artists.
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