Heavy Weather

310 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 1996 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-57292-6
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OCLC Number:
34196328

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Heavy Weather is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, first published in 1994, about a group of storm chasers in a world where global warming has produced incredibly destructive weather.

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Review of 'Heavy Weather' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Heavy Weather is Twister in book form - pure and simple.

In some ways the parallels are amazing. The book and the movie came out within two years of each other (can't remember which came first. Both works depict a storm chasing group in the midwest whose lead protagonist is trying to prove a theory. Both even depict...flying cows!

Sterling is one of the best known "cyberpunk" authors, but its important to realize that this book is not cyberpunk in any real sense. It is more "post-apocalyptic" in the Mad Max sense. So, write Twister as a book, and change the setting to a near future environmental post-apocalyptic scenario, add in a dash of medical issues, and you've got a good bit of Heavy Weather.

The book does suffer from a lagging middle. Sterling does a good job with his characterization to a large extent. The ideas produced near …

Review of 'Gros temps' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

J’ai dû avoir un été extra-lucide. Parce qu’après avoir lu [book:Titan], qui est une vision très anticipée des souçis de la NASA, j’ai lu [book:Gros temps] de [author:Bruce Sterling], celui-là même de [book:Schismatrice] (fabuleux) et des [book:mailles du réseau] (formidable). Bref, un auteur dont on pourrait dire avec peu de mauvaise foi que j’en suis fan. Mais là n’est pas l’objet de cet avis.
Gros temps est un roman qu’on pourrait décrire comme un “Twister” (le film sur les tornades) remis à une sauce cyberpunk. Dans ce roman, on suit un frère et une soeur, aussi déjantés l’un que l’autre, qui aident un scientifique pas mal non plus à traquer les tornades dans les vastes plaines du middle west, à la recherche de LA tornade, l’énorme, celle qui pourrait rester permanente (comme le dit l’auteur, exactement comme la tache orange de Jupiter). Je n’en dirais pas plus sur l’histoire, ça …

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Subjects

  • Weather control
  • Tornadoes
  • War use
  • Fiction