Schismatrix Plus

by Bruce Sterling

Reality’s a horde of mice, nibbling away in the basement of your dreams.

“‘A dissipative self-organizing system evolves along a coherent sequence of space-time structures. We may distinguish between four different dimensional frameworks: autopoiesis, ontogeny, phylogeny, anagenesis.’”

“I don’t know what I expected.… Some kind of golden glow, perhaps, some shimmer to show where my heart was buried. But we’re small creatures, and the Kosmos doesn’t care. There was no sign of it.”