This year major Jewish, Christian and Muslim holidays have converged against a backdrop of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Coronavirus constraints had severely limited attendance on the past two occasions. Saturday’s ceremony comes against a backdrop of rising tensions with Israel, which imposed new restrictions on attendance this year that it said were needed for safety. Poginant, lyrical, humorous, and often shocking, Holy Fire offers a hard unsparing look into a world that could become our own.Thousands of Christians have celebrated the traditional “Holy Fire” ceremony of blazing candles at the Holy Sepulchre church, Christianity’s holiest site in Jerusalem, to mark the eve of Orthodox Easter. Memory, science, politics, and the meaning of death. In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling once again creates a unique and provocative future that deals with such timeless topics of the human condition as love, Worst of all, Mia will have to undergo one last radical procedure that could cost her a second life.
She joins a group of outlaw anarchists whose leader may be the man of her dreams.or her undoing. Hitching a ride on a plane to Europe, Mia sets out on a wild intercontinental quest in search of spiritual gratification, erotic revelation, and the thing she missed most of all: the holy fire of the creative experience. The procedure is not without risk and her second chance at life will not come without a price. But first she must submit herself to a radical-and painful-experimental procedure which She has lived her life with such caution that it has been totally bereft of
But a deathbed visit with a long-ago ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress-designer brings Mia to an awful revelation. Mia Ziemann is a 94-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position.
Meanwhile, the young live on the fringes of society, ekeing out a meagre survival on free, government-issued rations and a black market in stolen technological gadgetry from an earlier, less sophisticated age. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to the latest advancements in life-extension technology. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions.
The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy.
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