''Holy Fire'' is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer

Bruce Sterling Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first ...

. It was nominated for the

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in 1996, and for both the

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and Locus Awards in 1997. ''Holy Fire'' is the story of an old woman who has gained a second youth—in a world in which radical

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is available through highly intrusive technological means—and who has an ontological transformation as a result.

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