Bruce Sterling on dieselpunk, alternate history, fascism and the current political moment
by Cory Doctorow from on (#291M6)
In November, Bruce Sterling published "Pirate Utopia," a dieselpunk novella set in the real, historical, bizarre moment in which the city of Fiume became an autonomous region run by artists and revolutionaries, whose philosophies ran the gamut from fascism to anarcho-syndicalism to socialism. (more")