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Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun MachineWho are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Mortal enemies of communists, capitalists, and even fascists (to whom they are not entirely unsympathetic) .The ambitious Soldier-Citizens of Carnaro are led by a brilliant and passionate coterie of the perhaps insane. Lorenzo Secondari, World War I veteran, engineering genius, and leader of Croatian raiders. Frau Piffer, Syndicalist manufacturer of torpedos at a factory run by and for women. The Ace of Hearts, a dashing Milanese aristocrat, spymaster, and tactical savant. And the Prophet, a seductive warrior-poet who leads via free love and military ruthlessness.Fresh off of a worldwide demonstration of their might, can the Futurists engage the aid of sinister American traitors and establish global domination?
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Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic,was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fictionnovels, he also writes short stories, book reviews,design criticism, opinion columns, and introductionsfor books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne.His nonfiction works include THE HACKER CRACKDOWN:LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992) ,TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003) ,and SHAPING THINGS (2005) . He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazineand writes a weblog. During 2005,he was the "Visionary in Residence" at Art CenterCollege of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 hewas the Guest Curator for the Share Festivalof Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy,and the Visionary in Residence at the SandbergInstituut in Amsterdam. In 2011 he returned to Art Center as "Visionary in Residence" to runa special project on Augmented Reality.He has appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show,CBC's Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time,Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times,Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review,Der Spiegel, La Stampa, La Repubblica, and many other venues.
