A while back I read Bruce Sterling’s novel Distraction. I wrote about it on Goodreads at the time, but I’ve had more time to gather a few more thoughts and observations.

1. Reading it I pictured Nathan Patrelli from Heroes in the role of Oscar.

2. Throughout, when they referred to Oscar’s “personal background problem” it put me in mind of Michael Palin in Time Bandits, tied to a tree and fretting that “The Problem!” would manifest.

3. Whenever I hear reference to the Golden Age of science fiction when it was all about the ideas, not the writing, I think of this book.

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