Bruce Sterling - The Spearhead of Cognition

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Bruce Sterling

bruces@well.sf.ca.us

CATSCAN 2 "The Spearhead of Cognition"

You're a kid from some podunk burg in Alabama.

From childhood you've been gnawed by vague

numinous sensations and a moody sense of your own

potential, but you've never pinned it down.

Then one joyful day you discover the work of a

couple of writers. They're pretty well-known (for

foreigners), so their books are available even in your

little town. Their names are "Tolstoy" and

"Dostoevsky." Reading them, you realize: This is it!

It's the sign you've been waiting for! This is your

destiny-- to become a *Russian Novelist*!

Fired with inspiration, you study the pair of

'em up and down, till you figure you've got a solid

grasp of what they're up to. You hear they're pretty

well-known back in Russia, but to your confident eye

they don't seem like so much. (Luckily, thanks to some

stunt of genetics, you happen to be a genius.) For

you, following their outline seems simple enough--in a

more sophisticated vein, of course, and for a modern

audience. So you write a few such books, you publish

'em, and people adore them. The folks in 'Bama are fit

to bust with pride, and say you've got Tolstoy beat

all hollow.

Then, after years of steadily growing success,

strange mail arrives. It's from Russia! They've been

reading your stuff in translation, and you've been

chosen to join the Soviet Writers' Union! Swell! you

think. Of course, living in backwoods Alabama, it's

been a little tough finding editions of contemporary

Russian novelists. But heck, Tolstoy did his writing

years ago! By now those Russians must be writing like

nobody's business!

Then a shipment of modern Russian novels

arrives, a scattering of various stuff that has

managed to elude the redtape. You open 'em up and--

ohmiGod! It's . . . it's COMMUNISM! All this stupid

stereotyped garbage! About Red heroes ten feet tall,

and sturdy peasants cheering about their tractors, and

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