The Zenith Angle
A Novel
“Gleeful, shrewd, speculative, cynical, closely observed . . . The Zenith Angle offers wisdom and solace, thrills and laughter.”—The Washington Post
“Compelling and important . . . A darkly comic fable of info-war, the black budget, über-geek idealism, and the politics of Homeland Insecurity.”—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition
Pioneering computer wizard Derek “Van” Vandeveer has been living extra-large as a VP for a booming Internet company. But the September 11 attacks on America change everything. Recruited as the key member of an elite federal computer-security team, Van enters the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence community. His special genius is needed to debug the software glitch in America’s most crucial KH-13 satellite, capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds…
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April 26, 2005Bruce Sterling is an Austin-born science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a cyberspace theorist who is also considered one of the forefathers of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. He has won a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards, and an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk
Jared Shurin
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Difference Engine
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Caryatids
Bruce Sterling
The Zenith Angle
Bruce Sterling
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne Translated by George M. Towle
Zeitgeist
Bruce Sterling