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In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portionsof Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the SecondAlliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation withdesigns on world domination. The only defense against the Alliance's creepingtotalitarianism is the New Resistance, a polyglot team of rebels that includesRick Rickenharp, a retro-rocker whose artistic and political sensibilitiesintertwine, and John Swenson, a mole who has infiltrated the Alliance.As the fight continues and years progress, so does the technology andbrutality of the Alliance... but ordinary people like the damaged visionarySmoke, Claire Rimpler on FirStep, and Dance Torrence and his fellow urbanwarriors on Earth are bound together by the truth and a single purpose: to keepthe darkness from becoming humankind's Total Eclipse - or die trying!John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locusof the virus, certifiably virulent."-William Gibson. An omnibus of all threenovels-revised by the author-of the prophetic, still frighteningly relevantcyberpunk masterpieces: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. With anintroduction by Richard Kadrey and biographical note by BruceSterling. |