About the book: 1997 / “Vacuum Flowers” ​​by Michael Swanwick is one of the best American novels in the cyberpunk genre. The Solar System has turned into one huge megalopolis, where powerful transplanetary corporations coexist with orbital “slums”, where some people program themselves in the appearance and likeness of popular heroes, while others voluntarily become cells of a global artificial intelligence. But even in this unusual world there is a place for pure and bright human feelings...