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including Newsweek, Fortune, Time, Whole Earth Review, and Wired, where he was a longtime contributing editor. He has won two Hugo Awards and was a finalist for the 2007 Nebula for Best Novella. He lives in Austin, Texas, with frequent side jaunts to Turin, Italy; Los Angeles; Belgrade; and Amsterdam.

The Caryatids is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Bruce Sterling

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sterling, Bruce.

The caryatids / Bruce Sterling.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-51271-0

1. Human cloning—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.T3876C37 2009

813′.54—dc22 2008051828

www.delreybooks.com

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Part One - Vera: The Adriatic

Chapter 1

Part Two - Radmila: Los Angeles

Chapter 2

Part Three - Sonja: The Gobi Desert

Chapter 3

Epilogue

Afterword

About the Author

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