Red Star, Winter Orbit topic

"Red Star, Winter Orbit" is a short story written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and published in Gibson's Burning Chrome collection of short fiction. The story is set in an alternate future where the Soviet Union controls most of the Earth's resources, especially oil. As a result of this the United States is no longer a dominant economic power on earth and the Soviets have won the space race. The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a... full article at wikipedia