# Distraction

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- Book: [Distraction](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling/distraction) ([Distraction.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling/distraction.md))
- Authors: [Bruce Sterling](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling)
- Publisher: gateway
- ISBN: 978-13-9964-038-1
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" This is a very smart, very funny book" - Locus " Enthralling and subversive" - SF Commentary " An excellent piece of future-gazing" - Amazon Reviewer A Dutch Cold War is in full swing. The US is a shadow of its former self - its infrastructure is failing, and nomadic tribes roam freely among the states, living by no rules but their own. Oscar Valpariso - always impeccably dressed - is only half human, but he's master political strategist to potentially the next president. If he can straighten out his love life, gain control of a high-tech scientific facility, and solve a worldwide crisis that only he's noticed, America should be ripe for the taking . . .