![]() ![]() economy by putting all our software online, life remains “doable” in this “big, hot, Greenhouse swamp” as one Cajun operative puts it, “The women are good-lookin’, and the music really swings!” And though many harbor a bias against Anglos - “the most violent ethnic group in America,” with “white-collar crime rates right off the charts” - the best pop music in the world comes from the Netherlands, where holding off the sea is a way of life. Though the Chinese have destroyed the U.S. Anglos seemed to have some talent for rigid, linear music that less troubled ethnic groups couldn’t match.” But never fear. It was amazing how many Anglos had gone into the booming classical music scene. As he sups on a genetically altered crayfish the size of a lobster, a string quartet strikes up a minuet: “Typical Anglo ethnic music. It is 2045 and the protagonist of Bruce Sterling’s 1998 novel Distraction, a young pol named Oscar Valparaiso who happens to be a clone, repairs to a half-wrecked Louisiana town where the beach houses were long ago moved up into an abandoned cow pasture.
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