Totem Poles: A Tor.Com Original
By Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker
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The saucer aliens are here. They're healing the planet. They've got to be stopped.
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Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction writer, born in Brownsville, Texas on April 14, 1954. His first published fiction appeared in the late 1970s, but he came to real prominence in the early 1980s as one of several writers associated with the "cyberpunk" tendency, and as that movement's chief theoretician and pamphleteer. He also edited the anthology Mirrorshades (1986), which still stands as a definitive document of that period in SF. His novel Islands in the Net (1988) won the John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year; he has also won two Hugo awards, for the stories "Bicycle Repairman" (1996) and "Taklamakan" (1998). His 1990 collaboration with William Gibson, The Difference Engine, was an important work of early steampunk/neo-Victoriana. In 2009, he published The Caryatids. In 1992 he published The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, heralding a second career as a journalist covering social, legal, and artistic matters in the digital world. The first issue of Wired magazine, in 1993, featured his face on its cover; today, their web site hosts his long-running blog, Beyond the Beyond.
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Dirt Complaining and Dirt Harkening were a long-buried married couple.
I haven’t minded being dead one bit,
said Dirt Complaining. But now we’ve got space aliens nosing around. And they’re curious about totem poles? Why did you men even make those things?
We were great artists,
said Dirt Harkening.
Fools conjuring up cosmic forces.
I miss potlatch,
said Dirt Harkening.