The Moderan Sequence
Throughout his career, Bunch worked on a group of satirical far-future SF stories set in Moderan, a version of Earth paved over entirely with gray plastic and controlled by perpetually warring cyborg fortresses. Although the society of Moderan seems to project an appearance of personal valor and military perfection, its citizens are ultimately powerless, dominated by their own petty insecurities and hubris.
Forty-six of the Moderan stories were collected in Moderan (1971), linked by a complex frame-story. The collection was never reprinted and has become a collector's item. Despite its relative rarity, it is cited as a major work of New Wave science fiction and it influenced cyberpunk.
Bunch continued to write and publish Moderan stories throughout his career. He had longed to see a complete collection of the Moderan sequence published, but that has not taken place.
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