Holy Fire (novel)

Holy Fire
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Bruce Sterling
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction novel
Publisher Bantam Books
Publication date
July 1996
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 294 pp
ISBN 0-553-09958-2
OCLC 34513313
813/.54 20
LC Class PS3569.T3876 H6 1996

Holy Fire is a 1996 science fiction novel by cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling. It was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1996,[1] and for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1997.[2]

Holy Fire is the story of an old woman who has gained a second youth—in a world in which radical life extension is available through highly intrusive technological means—and who has an ontological transformation as a result.

It is considered one of the more literary cyberpunk novels of the 1990s, and has won a cult following among younger writers and futurists, especially those in the bright green camp. Charles Stross has recommended it.[3]

References

  1. "1996 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  2. "1997 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  3. "comment by Charles Stross on his personal blog". 13 years old and unjustly overlooked, this ought to be one of the classics of medium-future extrapolation.


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