ALT.SF4M Sterling reads from "Distraction" online • t*****4@***.com 11/12/1998 00:00:000 UTC This is to let you know that Bruce Sterling, best-selling author of "Heavyweather" and "Holy Fire," reads from his new novel, "Distraction" online. You can hear the book before it hits the stores! Described as "a darkly comic vision of the future of America," the new novel details an "undending spectacle of politics, science, sex and corruption..." according to its presenters, scifi.com and Seeing Ear Theatre. Any real- life parallels, perchance? Listen to Sterling at http://www.scifi.com/set. Then let me know if you like it. Troy Logan