Sterling really packs ideas onto the page! He furnishes his setting with detail after telling detail: there is a much greater sense, seems to me, that the future being depicted is really in the future, and not just now + a few changes, as in so many SF books. (And next, try to find a copy of Phoenix - which might not be easy! Though it should be in the public domain next year.) So here is that review, from way back in 1996, one of the earliest book reviews I posted.
He wondered if anyone in his circle had read the latter - and of course I had, and I knew I'd reviewed it, and I realized I'd never reposted my review after my old webpage went away. Here's a post he wrote for the site Book Riot about Mills, as reprinted on his blog: The Resurrection of Lady Dorothy Mills, in which he mentions her 1926 SF novel Phoenix, which he compared in theme to Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire. James has a webpage about Mills: Lady Dorothy Mills, and recently posted about her on his blog. One of his interests is a writer named Lady Dorothy Mills, who wrote popular travel books and novels mostly in the 1920s. James Wallace Harris writes the excellent blog Auxiliary Memory, in which he discusses many different things, including such subjects close to my heart as SF (and short SF), and also forgotten popular fiction.
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