Series
Shaper/Mechanist
Bruce Sterling · 1 novel · 2 novelettes · 3 short stories · 1982–1985
Shaper/Mechanist is Bruce Sterling's future-history of a fractured solar system, split between the genetically engineered Shapers and the cybernetically augmented Mechanists as humanity spreads beyond Earth. Schismatrix, the only full-length novel in the setting, follows a diplomat-schemer across decades of shifting factions and post-human politics. Schismatrix Plus collects that novel together with five earlier short stories set in the same future.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Shaper/Mechanist at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s6
Shape
1 novel · 2 novelettes · 3 short stories
1 author
reads like:science fictiongenetic engineeringspacefar futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Cicada Queendarkest · calmest
- Sunken Gardensbrightest
- Swarmmost intense