Subterranean Press have officially announced that they will publish Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling in September of this year. It’ll be available in both a trade and limited edition. This one took a lot of work, really didn’t come easy, but it’s done. I hope you guys like it when it hits the shelves. The contents of the book are:

• Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
• Foreword by Bruce Sterling

Part I: The Shaper/Mechanist Stories

• Swarm
• Spider Rose
• Cicada Queen
• Sunken Gardens
• Twenty Evocations

Part II: Early Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Green Days in Brunei
• Dinner in Audoghast
• The Compassionate, the Digital
• Flowers of Edo
• The Little Magic Shop
• Our Neural Chernobyl
• We See Things Differently
• Dori Bangs

Part III: The Leggy Starlitz Stories

• Hollywood Kremlin
• Are You for 86?
• The Littlest Jackal

Part IV: The Chattanooga Stories

• Deep Eddy
• Bicycle Repairman
• Taklamakan

Part V: Later Science Fiction and Fantasy

• The Sword of Damocles
• Maneki Neko
• In Paradise
• The Blemmye’s Strategem
• Kiosk