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Zeitgeist

By Bruce Sterling

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553576412

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It’s 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted — pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex.

His market is staring him in the faContinue

It’s 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted — pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex.

His market is staring him in the face: millions of teenagers trapped in a world of mullahs and mosques, all ready to blow their pocket change on G-7’s massive merchandising campaign — and to wildly anticipate music the band will never release.

Leggy’s brilliant plan means doing business with some of the world’s most dangerous people. Among these thieves, schemers, and killers, he must act quickly and decisively. Y2K is just around the corner — and the only rule to live by is that the whole scheme stops before the year 2000.

But Leggy’s G-7 Zeitgeist is in serious jeopardy, for in Istanbul his former partners are getting restless — and the G-7 girls are beginning to die....

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  • Zeitgeist: A Novel of Metamorphosis

    Bantam Spectra, 293 pp., $24.95 You'd never take Bruce Sterling, Austin's homegrown futurist, for a fan of the Spice Girls, but just in case you had, his latest lobs an irony-grenade amidst the Spices and their ilk and renders pre-fab pop defects lik ... (read full critics)

    austinchronicle published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0553576410
  • ISBN-13: 9780553576412
  • Publisher: Spectra
  • Pub date: Jul 31, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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