Name: Heavy weather
ISBN: 9780553572926

Heavy weather

Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever. Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect. Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force roam the open spaces of Texas. And on their trail are the Storm Troupers: a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists who live to hack heavy weather -- to document it and spread the information as far as the digital networks will stretch, using virtual reality to explore the eye of the storm. Although it's incredibly addictive, this is no game. The Troupers' computer models suggest that soon an "F-6" will strike -- a tornado of an intensity that exceeds any existing scale; a storm so devastating that it may never stop. And they're going to be there when all hell breaks loose.

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EvanAndersonDec 2025

I suspect "Interface" will be up your alley. It isn't anywhere near as literary as Gibson. It has become wildly more plausible as it has aged.

Anathem is definitely a slow start. If anything once it gets going it moves too fast. I'd argue it doesn't spent enough time exploring the world the reader suddenly finds themselves in.

If you haven't, check out Bruce Sterling. His "Heavy Weather"[0] might well be up your alley, too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Weather_(Sterling_novel)

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jauntywundrkindAug 2025

I keep meaning to reread Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather, about a future where the climate is trashed & weather escalates. Amid this, a group of tornado chasers are trying to find the first "F6" class tornado. https://thierstein.net/index.php?view=article&id=355:bruce-s...

Different extreme weather but fun book.

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superkuhApr 2025

Bruce Sterling's "Heavy Weather" was a surprisingly accurate prediction of the 2020-2040s for coming out in 1995 at the peak of "the end of history". He called this one re: tuberculosis.

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tessierashpoolApr 2022

if you like that, you should definitely check out the tornado chasers' car in Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling.

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__dApr 2019

CJ Cherryh, Cyteen (and then the rest of the Merchanter universe).

Iain M Banks, Player of Games (and then everything else)

For cyberpunk, Neuromancer and the sprawl trilogy have not aged terribly well. I still like them, but they're from a certain context.

Try Greg Egan's Permutation City; Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather, Islands in the Net, or Holy Fire.

Lauren Beukes, Zoo City.

There are so, so many ... ;-)

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