But in the Sprawl stories we see a future that is recognizably and painstakingly drawn from the modern condition.
But in the Sprawl stories we see a future that is recognizably and painstakingly drawn from the modern condition. It is multifaceted, sophisticated, global in its view. It derives from a new set of starting points: not from the shopworn formula of robots, spaceships, and the modern miracle of atomic energy, but from cybernetics, biotech, and the communications web—to name a few.
