Ascendancies: the best of Bruce Sterling

Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler --

Foreword / by Bruce Sterling --

Part 1: The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm --

Spider Rose --

Cicada queen --

Sunken gardens --

Twenty evocations --

Part 2: Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei --

Dinner in Audoghast --

The compassionate, the digital --

Flowers of Edo --

The little magic shop --

Our neural Chernobyl --

We see things differently --

Dori Bangs --

Part 3: The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin --

Are you for 86? --

The littlest jackal --

Part 4: The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy --

Bicycle repairman --

Taklamakan --

Part V: Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles --

Maneki Neko --

In paradise --

The blemmye's strategem --

Kiosk.