THE ARTIFICIAL KID
$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition · Signed
New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed by Sterling. A first-person far-future picaresque, whose, shockproof milieu of glamorized youth, martial arts and omnipotent technology recalls the early work of Samuel R. Delany; but the novel also looks forward to the Cyberpunk
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