Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it never left Glasgow

Re:Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it neve... by AceJohnny2 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:46PM (#32266862)

Reminds me of a (very cyberpunk) short story I read in the late 90s in Asimov's, where a pair of super-hackers infiltrate a secrete bunker under the Gobi desert to find the same, populated by ethnicities the Chinese government made "disappear". (also the base of the cavern featured a pool of constructor ooze that evolved designs that would then be industrialized by China)

Wish I could remember the author and title, it's been sticking with me ever since.

Edit: Thanks to u/zem's hint, it's Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling, featured in Asimov's October 1998.

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Re:Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it neve... by zem on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:04PM (#32268052)

Bruce Sterling, one of his shaper/mechanist stories.

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Re:Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it neve... by AceJohnny2 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:21PM (#32268280)

Huh. I haven't read anything else by him, though I've heard many gushing recommendations of his works (by other authors!). So that's up my list.

Edit: Awesome! It's Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_(short_story)

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Re:Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it neve... by zem on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:27PM (#32268357)

check out "a good old-fashioned future" for a very nice sample of his work.

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