Language models are really keen to sell old books nowadays

Hi Bruce Sterling,I have to be honest. When I came across Zeitgeist, I did not expect a novel about a fake all-girl pop group in Cyprus to be one of the most razor-sharp autopsies of late capitalism, pop culture, and millennial anxiety I have ever read.This is the story of Leggy Starlitz, a gloriously amoral operator who has landed in the Turkish half of Cyprus with a scheme as audacious as it is absurd: flood the Third World with G-7 Girls merchandise for a band that will never release a single note of music. His customers are millions of teenagers in a world of mullahs and mosques, hungry for Western pop spectacle and willing to spend every coin they have on it. His business partners are thieves, schemers, and killers. His deadline is immovable: everything stops before Y2K. And then the girls start dying.This is not just a satirical thriller. This is a brilliantly constructed fever dream about the mechanics of manufactured desire, the violence underneath globalisation, and what it…