- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; First Edition edition (Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553104934
- ISBN-13: 978-0553104936
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,546,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bruce Sterling is "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today" (Time), offering haunting visions of a future shaped by a madness of our own making. His latest novel is a startling tragicomic spectacle that takes a breathtaking look at a world where the future is being chased down by the past....
Zeitgeist
It's 1999 in Cyprus, an ancient island bejeweled with blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers and littered with rusting land mines, corroding barbed wire, and illegal sewage dumps. Here, in the Turkish half of the island, 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 band ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex. And 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 group will never release.
Leggy's brilliant plan means doing business with some of the world's most dangerous people. His business partner is the rich and connected Mehmet Ozbey, a man with many identities and a Turkish girlfriend whose beauty and singing voice could blow G-7 right out of the water. His security chief is Pulat Romanevich Khoklov, who learned to fly MiG combat jets in Afghanistan and now pilots Milosevic's personal airplane. Among these thieves, schemers, and killers, Leggy must act quickly and decisively. Bombs are dropping in Yugoslavia. 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 gets a surprise when the daughter he's never met arrives on his doorstep. A major fan of G-7, she is looking for a father--and her search forces Leggy to examine his life before making a madcap journey in search of a father of his own. It's a detour that puts his G-7 Zeitgeist in some real jeopardy. For in Istanbul, Leggy's former partners are getting restless, and the G-7 girls are beginning to die....Zeitgeist is a world-beat tale of smugglers, paparazzi, greed, war, and a new era of cultural crusades. Here Bruce Sterling proves once again that in the fiction of imagination, he is one of the most insightful writers of our time.
Zeitgeist
It's 1999 in Cyprus, an ancient island bejeweled with blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers and littered with rusting land mines, corroding barbed wire, and illegal sewage dumps. Here, in the Turkish half of the island, 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 band ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex. And 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 group will never release.
Leggy's brilliant plan means doing business with some of the world's most dangerous people. His business partner is the rich and connected Mehmet Ozbey, a man with many identities and a Turkish girlfriend whose beauty and singing voice could blow G-7 right out of the water. His security chief is Pulat Romanevich Khoklov, who learned to fly MiG combat jets in Afghanistan and now pilots Milosevic's personal airplane. Among these thieves, schemers, and killers, Leggy must act quickly and decisively. Bombs are dropping in Yugoslavia. 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 gets a surprise when the daughter he's never met arrives on his doorstep. A major fan of G-7, she is looking for a father--and her search forces Leggy to examine his life before making a madcap journey in search of a father of his own. It's a detour that puts his G-7 Zeitgeist in some real jeopardy. For in Istanbul, Leggy's former partners are getting restless, and the G-7 girls are beginning to die....Zeitgeist is a world-beat tale of smugglers, paparazzi, greed, war, and a new era of cultural crusades. Here Bruce Sterling proves once again that in the fiction of imagination, he is one of the most insightful writers of our time.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this at the airport, expecting great things - having thoroughly enjoyed Sterling's earlier work. This novel, however, is a bit frothy, little depth to the characters and not enough action in the plot to overcome that flaw. Whilst it was fine as a holiday read on the beach it does not live up to to the standard of his earlier work.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is my favorite Bruce Sterling book so far. The story is amazing. Through the main characters, Sterling adresses political conflicts and social conflicts through naritive structure and collective unconcious. The main character, Leggy Starlitz, always refers to "the naritive" and talks about surrviving change of millenium. The books starts off with a silly scam to make money selling clothing with the help of a girl group like the spice girls, but it expands to talk about the effect of mass media on the phyche of the world, and univerally held ideas' affect on individuals. Brilliant.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Last seen attempting to set up an online money-laundering operation (while at the same time securing a lucrative merchandising deal for the Japanese market) on an obscure set of Finnish islands, Leggy Starlitz is back. This time the scam is using a talentless girl-band touring the developing world to sell cheap clothes, lunch boxes, etc.
Sterling again shows an incredible depth of knowledge about people, politics and places which rarely enter most peoples consciousness. All of this through the eyes of the anti-heroic Leggy Starlitz who thrives in interstitial areas where civilisation has either broken down or never properly started. Leggy is a character of equal charm and humour to Oscar Valparaiso from Sterling's "Distraction" and his adventures again produce more thought-provoking ideas per page than you would think possible.
Tremendous book - buy it!
Sterling again shows an incredible depth of knowledge about people, politics and places which rarely enter most peoples consciousness. All of this through the eyes of the anti-heroic Leggy Starlitz who thrives in interstitial areas where civilisation has either broken down or never properly started. Leggy is a character of equal charm and humour to Oscar Valparaiso from Sterling's "Distraction" and his adventures again produce more thought-provoking ideas per page than you would think possible.
Tremendous book - buy it!
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