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* FailedFutureForecast: The Soviet Union is portrayed as lasting into the 2020s.
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** The Soviet Union is portrayed as lasting into the2020s.2020s.
** Data Havens are portrayed as existing in the 2020s.
** The European currency is called the Ecu, instead of the Euro. "Ecu" was one of several names which were proposed but not adopted for the common European currency.
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** Data Havens are portrayed as existing in the 2020s.
** The European currency is called the Ecu, instead of the Euro. "Ecu" was one of several names which were proposed but not adopted for the common European currency.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union is portrayed as lasting into the 2020s.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: Soviet Union breaks in 1991.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: A lot of the technology described is only incrementally more advanced than what was possible when Sterling wrote the book. People still use audio and video cassettes, bandwidth is so precious that even large companies only use video conferencing when absolutely necessary, and fax machines are still a common way of communicating.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ceramic machetes.BadassNormal: Laura Webster is a PR agent in a story with gangsters, drug dealers, super-soldiers, and worse -- none of whom, in the end, are able to stop her.
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''Islands in the Net'' is a political science-fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, published in 1988.
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''Islands in the Net'' is a political science-fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, Creator/BruceSterling, published in 1988.
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The story is first set in 2023, Galveston, Texas. It follows the adventure of Laura Webster, a Public Relation worker for a global corporation Rizome. She tends a lodge along with her Husband, Davis, with whom she has a 3 month old daughter, Loretta.
Her plight begins when one of the representatives of a datahaven, Winston Stubbs, gets Assassinated during a major conference between two other datahaven representatives and Rizome in her lodge. Her company decides to send her and her family to Grenada, home of one of the datahavens, and solve the problem diplomatically.
Her plight begins when one of the representatives of a datahaven, Winston Stubbs, gets Assassinated during a major conference between two other datahaven representatives and Rizome in her lodge. Her company decides to send her and her family to Grenada, home of one of the datahavens, and solve the problem diplomatically.
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The story is first set in 2023, Galveston, Texas. It follows the adventure of Laura Webster, a Public Relation Relations worker for a global corporation Rizome. She tends a lodge along with her Husband, husband, Davis, with whom she has a 3 month old daughter, Loretta.
Her plight begins when one of the representatives of adatahaven, data haven, Winston Stubbs, gets Assassinated assassinated during a major conference between two other datahaven data haven representatives and Rizome in her lodge. Her company decides to send her and her family to Grenada, home of one of the datahavens, data havens, and solve the problem diplomatically.
Her plight begins when one of the representatives of a
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* BigLabyrinthineBuilding - An oil rig as big as a city. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/islandinthenetoilrig_6450.jpg Depicted here]]
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* BigLabyrinthineBuilding - BigLabyrinthineBuilding: An oil rig as big as a city. city, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/islandinthenetoilrig_6450.jpg Depicted here]]depicted here.]]
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''Islands in the Net'' is a political science-fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, published in 1988.
The story is first set in 2023, Galveston, Texas. It follows the adventure of Laura Webster, a Public Relation worker for a global corporation Rizome. She tends a lodge along with her Husband, Davis, with whom she has a 3 month old daughter, Loretta.
Her plight begins when one of the representatives of a datahaven, Winston Stubbs, gets Assassinated during a major conference between two other datahaven representatives and Rizome in her lodge. Her company decides to send her and her family to Grenada, home of one of the datahavens, and solve the problem diplomatically.
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!! This books contains the following tropes:
* AttackDrone
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ceramic machetes.
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding - An oil rig as big as a city. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/islandinthenetoilrig_6450.jpg Depicted here]]
* CleanCut: Thanks to the cutting power of the ceramic machetes.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Both the above image, and the Ace publication cover are misleading. This is not CyberPunk.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: "Scop", are single celled proteins grown in bacteria-filled vats.
* GladToBeAliveSex
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* MegaCorp
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent
* PinballProtagonist: Laura, at some points in the novel.
* PostCyberPunk: Definitely not cyberpunk.
* PowderKegCrowd
* PrisonEpisode: Which is also a GirlsBehindBars.
* ScienceMarchesOn: A lot of the technology described is only incrementally more advanced than what was possible when Sterling wrote the book. People still use audio and video cassettes, bandwidth is so precious that even large companies only use video conferencing when absolutely necessary, and fax machines are still a common way of communicating.
* SharpenedToASingleAtom: The ceramic machetes
* SocietyMarchesOn: Soviet Union breaks in 1991.
* TimeSkip
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
* VideoPhone
* {{Zeerust}}: The book is very conservative about advancements in IT, with the result being that it looked dated by 1993.
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''Islands in the Net'' is a political science-fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, published in 1988.
The story is first set in 2023, Galveston, Texas. It follows the adventure of Laura Webster, a Public Relation worker for a global corporation Rizome. She tends a lodge along with her Husband, Davis, with whom she has a 3 month old daughter, Loretta.
Her plight begins when one of the representatives of a datahaven, Winston Stubbs, gets Assassinated during a major conference between two other datahaven representatives and Rizome in her lodge. Her company decides to send her and her family to Grenada, home of one of the datahavens, and solve the problem diplomatically.
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!! This books contains the following tropes:
* AttackDrone
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ceramic machetes.
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding - An oil rig as big as a city. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/islandinthenetoilrig_6450.jpg Depicted here]]
* CleanCut: Thanks to the cutting power of the ceramic machetes.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Both the above image, and the Ace publication cover are misleading. This is not CyberPunk.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: "Scop", are single celled proteins grown in bacteria-filled vats.
* GladToBeAliveSex
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* MegaCorp
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent
* PinballProtagonist: Laura, at some points in the novel.
* PostCyberPunk: Definitely not cyberpunk.
* PowderKegCrowd
* PrisonEpisode: Which is also a GirlsBehindBars.
* ScienceMarchesOn: A lot of the technology described is only incrementally more advanced than what was possible when Sterling wrote the book. People still use audio and video cassettes, bandwidth is so precious that even large companies only use video conferencing when absolutely necessary, and fax machines are still a common way of communicating.
* SharpenedToASingleAtom: The ceramic machetes
* SocietyMarchesOn: Soviet Union breaks in 1991.
* TimeSkip
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
* VideoPhone
* {{Zeerust}}: The book is very conservative about advancements in IT, with the result being that it looked dated by 1993.
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