Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling"s new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe. In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling"s stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man"s destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.