BRUCE STERLING is the author of ten novels, three of which were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. The Difference Engine, co-written with William Gibson, was a national bestseller. He has also published four short-story collections and three nonfiction books. He has written for many magazines, including Newsweek, Fortune, Time, Whole Earth Review, and Wired, where he was a longtime contributing editor. He has won two Hugo Awards and was a finalist for the 2007 Nebula for Best Novella. He lives in Austin, Texas, with frequent side jaunts to Turin, Italy; Los Angeles; Belgrade; and Amsterdam.
The Caryatids is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 2009 by Bruce Sterling
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sterling, Bruce.
The caryatids / Bruce Sterling.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51271-0
1. Human cloning-Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T3876C37 2009
813 .54-dc22 2008051828
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