Before you - ALTERNATIVE FICTION!!!Sharp. Paradoxical. Funny. Bitter. Forcing readers to admire - and be indignant, argue - and discuss what they read. Fiction that will not leave ANYONE indifferent! Before you are not just seven stories, but seven pictures of the future, created by the founder of the "cyberpunk" genre, Bruce Sterling, author of the legendary anthology " Mirror glasses" and the cult "Schismatrix". Here voodoo curses are imposed through a computer... Here politicians are puppets of artificial intelligences that have gotten out of hand... Here "virtual" and "real" have finally formed a single whole. Seven facets of the future by Bruce Sterling. Choose!