Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling at Ars Electronica (2004)
Bruce Sterling (2013)

Bruce Sterling (* 14. April 1954 in Brownsville , Texas ) is an American science fiction - writers .

Life

In 1974, Sterling attended the renowned Clarion workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy authors.

His first publication was the short story Man-Made Self , which appeared in Lone Star Universe in 1976 , by Steven Utley and Geo. W. Proctor- edited anthology of Texan authors. Sterling, like Utley, was a member of Texas' Turkey City Writers , a group of Austin -based SF writers . Sterling's debut novel was Involution Ocean (1977, German "The Dust Planet" (1984), later "The Dust Ocean ").

Sterling is considered a co-founder of cyberpunk . He was nominated several times for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award , the latter he received in 1999. He has lived in Turin since 2007 after having lived in Belgrade for several years . He is married to the Serbian author and filmmaker Jasmina Tešanović in his second marriage .

Sterling also became known for his political commitment. In 1992 he published his first non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown with the subtitle Law and Disorder in the Electronic Frontier ; In it he describes the hacker scene of the late 1980s and decisive events such as the US Secret Service's attack on credit card fraudsters, the raid on Steve Jackson Games and the establishment of the Electronic Frontier Foundation . This book has been freely published in electronic form on the Internet .

Sterling is also one of the leading figures behind the Viridian ("Cyber-Greens") design movement .

Sterling also writes articles on pop culture , popular science, and travel that appear in various American magazines.

Awards

bibliography

Novels
  • Involution Ocean (1977)
    • German: The dust planet. Translated by Bernd Holzrichter. Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5727, 1980, ISBN 3-426-05721-1 . Reprinted as: The Dust Ocean. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5491, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10931-7 .
  • The Artificial Kid (1980)
  • Schismatrix (1985)
    • German: Schismatrix. Translated by Roland Fleissner. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4556, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03145-8 . Also as: Schismatrix. Translated by Hannes Riffel. Argument (Ariadne Social Fantasies # 2058), 2000, ISBN 3-88619-958-4 .
  • Islands in the Net (1988)
    • German: Islands in the network. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4702, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04285-9 .
  • The Difference Engine (1990, with William Gibson )
    • German: The difference machine. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4860, 1992, ISBN 3-453-05380-X .
  • Heavy Weather (1994)
  • Holy Fire (1996)
  • Distraction (1998)
    • German: Brennendes Land. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 6381, 2001, ISBN 3-453-18774-1 .
  • Zeitgeist (2000)
  • The Zenith Angle (2004)
  • The Caryatids (2009)
  • Love Is Strange: A Paranormal Romance (2012)
Collections
  • Crystal Express (1989)
  • Globalhead (1992)
  • A Good Old-Fashioned Future (1999)
  • Visionary in Residence (2006)
  • Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (2007)
  • Gothic high tech (2011)
  • Transreal Cyberpunk (2016, with Rudy Rucker )
Anthologies (as editor)
  • Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)
    • German: Spiegelschatten. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4544, 1988, ISBN 3-453-03133-4 .
  • Twelve Tomorrows (2014)
  • Twelve Tomorrows (2015)
Short stories

If only the title and year are given as the source for short stories, the complete information can be found in the corresponding collective edition.

  • Man-Made Self (1976)
  • Swarm (1982)
    • German: Schwärmer. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Spider Rose (1982)
    • German: Spider Rose. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Spook (1983)
    • German: Spitzel. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Cicada Queen (1983)
    • German: Cicada Queen. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983, with William Gibson)
    • German: Red Star, Winter Orbit. In: mirror shadow. 1988.
  • Life in the Mechanist / Shaper Era: 20 Evocations (1984)
    • German: twenty invocations. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Sunken Gardens (1984)
    • German: Sunken Gardens. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Telliamed (1984)
    • German: Telliamed. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • The Compassionate, the Digital (1985)
  • The Unfolding (1985, with John Shirley )
    • German: The unfolding. Translated by Michael Nagula. In: Michael Nagula (ed.): Atomic Avenue. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4704), 1990, ISBN 3-453-04287-5 . Also as: The appearance. Translated by Norbert Stöbe. Heat sensor §1991-00-00§John Shirley§Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4825) §3-453-05012-6 1991.
  • Dinner in Audoghast (1985)
    • English: Last Supper in Audoghast. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Mozart in Mirrorshades (1985, with Lewis Shiner )
    • German: Mozart with mirror glasses. In: mirror shadow. 1988.
  • Green Days in Brunei (1985)
    • German: Green days in Brunei. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Storming the Cosmos (1985, with Rudy Rucker)
    • German: The storming of the cosmos. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 30th episode. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4446), 1987, ISBN 3-453-00962-2 .
  • The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986)
    • German: The beautiful and the sublime. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • Flowers of Edo (1987)
    • English: The flowers of Edo. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • The Little Magic Shop (1987)
    • German: The little magic shop. In: Queen of the Cicada. 1990.
  • The Gulf Wars (1988)
  • Our Neural Chernobyl (1988)
  • We See Things Differently (1989)
  • Dori Bangs (1989)
  • The Sword of Damocles (1990)
  • The Shores of Bohemia (1990)
  • Endangered Species (1990)
  • Latter-Day Martian Chronicles (1990)
  • Hollywood Kremlin (1990)
  • The Angel of Goliad (1990, with William Gibson)
  • Jim and Irene (1991)
  • The Moral Bullet (1991, with John Kessel)
  • The Unthinkable (1991)
  • Are You For 86? (1992)
  • Memo from Turner (1993)
  • Sacred Cow (1993)
  • Deep Eddy (1993)
  • Big Jelly (1994, with Rudy Rucker)
  • Heavy Weather (1995)
  • Bicycle Repairman (1996)
  • The Littlest Jackal (1996)
  • Maneki Neko (1998)
  • Taklamakan (1998)
  • Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct (1999, also as AD 2380: Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct ; 2001)
  • User-Centric (1999)
  • Code (2001)
  • The Scab's Progress (2001, with Paul Di Filippo)
  • In Paradise (2002)
  • Junk DNA (2003, with Rudy Rucker)
  • The Latter Days of the Law (2003, with Howard Waldrop )
  • The Necropolis of Thebes (2003)
  • The Growthing (2004)
  • The Spider's Amazement (2004)
  • Luciferase (2004)
  • The Blemmye's Strategem (2005)
  • Ivory Tower (2005)
  • The Denial (2005)
  • Message Found in a Bottle (2006)
  • I Saw the Best Minds of My Generations Destroyed by Google (2006)
  • Kiosk (2007)
  • A Plain Tale from Our Hills (2007)
  • Hormiga Canyon (2007, with Rudy Rucker)
  • The Lustration (2007)
  • The Interoperation (2007)
  • Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years from Today (2008)
  • Colliding Branes (2009, with Rudy Rucker)
  • Black Swan (2009)
  • White Fungus (2009)
  • Join the Navy and See the Worlds (2009)
  • Esoteric City (2009)
  • The Hypersurface of This Decade (2010)
  • Windsor Executive Solutions (2010, with Chris Nakashima-Brown)
  • The Exterminator's Want Ad (2010)
  • The Parthenopean Scalpel (2010)
  • The Paranoid Critical Method (2010)
  • Good Night, Moon (2010, with Rudy Rucker)
  • The Master of the Aviary (2011)
  • The Onset of a Paranormal Romance (2011)
  • Goddess of Mercy (2012)
  • Loco (2012, with Rudy Rucker)
  • The Peak of Eternal Light (2012)
  • My Pretty Alluvian Bride (2012)
  • From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter (2013)
  • Pilgrims of the Round World (2013)
  • The Various Mansions of the Universe (2014)
  • Tall Tower (2014)
  • The Brain Dump (2014)
  • The Ancient Engineer (2015)
  • Pictures from the Resurrection (2015)
  • Kraken and Sage (2016, with Rudy Rucker)
  • Totem Poles (2016, with Rudy Rucker)
  • Sgt.Augmento (2016)
  • Pirate Utopia (2016)
  • Elephant on Table (2017)
  • It Feels So Exponential (2017)
  • Takes from the White Hart (2018)
Non-fiction
  • The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992)
  • Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years (2002)
  • Shaping Things (2005)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Sterling, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brownsville, Texas