Heavy Weather

English language

ISBN:
978-0-553-57292-6
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4 stars (14 reviews)

Heavy Weather is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, first published in 1994, about a group of storm chasers in a world where global warming has produced incredibly destructive weather.

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reviewed Heavy weather by Bruce Sterling (A Bantam spectra book)

Strangely distant and matter-of-fact

3 stars

An intriguing story about weather watchers in the near future, which dwells a little too much on the – admittedly vivid – descriptions of tornados, and then leads to a disappointing end. Yes, it is all very believable, but it simply doesn't make for a good ending to this particular story.

The writing is strangely distant and matter-of-fact. Even the sex scenes aren't very emotional (or even horny), let alone the half-wrought relationship between the two siblings. Sterling's strongest point is the description of fast events: he can go on for pages, yet it reads like a stylish slow-motion sequence.

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