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Bruce Sterling


USA flag (b.1954)

BRUCE STERLING is the author of nine novels, three of which were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. The Difference Engine, co-written with William Gibson, was a national bestseller. He has also published three short-story collections and one nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown. He edited the anthology Mirrorshades and has written for many magazines, including Newsweek, Fortune, Harper's, Details, Whole Earth Review, and Wired, where he has been a contributing writer since its conception. In 1999, he won the Hugo Award in the short-story category. He lives in Austin, Texas.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
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Novels
   Involution Ocean (1977)
   The Artificial Kid (1980)
   Islands in the Net (1988)
   The Difference Engine (1990) (with William Gibson)
   Heavy Weather (1991)
   Holy Fire (1996)
   Distraction (1998)
   Zeitgeist (2000)
   The Zenith Angle (2004)
   The Caryatids (2009)
   Pirate Utopia (2016)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Good Night, Moon (2011) (with Rudy Rucker)
   Loco (2012) (with Rudy Rucker)
   Totem Poles (2016) (with Rudy Rucker)
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Anthologies edited
   Mirrorshades (1986)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Bruce Sterling recommends
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The Extractionist (2022)
Kimberly Unger
"Our heroine is a business consultant, but we live in her cyborg brain, we see every detail through her augmented eyes, and the future world she haunts is crammed with invention to the point of psychedelia. I quite enjoyed this."
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Stormland (2021)
John Shirley
"Stormland is a headlong sci-fi thriller about the punk squalor of post-disaster situations. It's also got some remarkably interesting speculative technologies, so I'd say that Mr. Shirley is quite on top of his game with this one."
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Tropic of Kansas (2017)
Christopher Brown
"Tropic of Kansas is the tale of a politically desperate USA haunted by a sullen, feral teen who is Huck Finn, Conan and Tarzan. Because it’s Chris Brown’s own imaginary America, this extraordinary novel is probably more American than America itself will ever get."

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Anthologies containing stories by Bruce Sterling
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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Love, Death and Robots: Volumes 2 & 3 (2022)
(Love, Death and Robots, book 2)
edited by
Geoff Brown and Amanda J Spedding
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The Unquiet Dreamer (2019)
A Tribute to Harlan Ellison
edited by
Preston Grassmann

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Awards
John W. Campbell Best Book nominee (1978) : Involution Ocean
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1983) : Spider Rose
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1983) : Swarm
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1983) : Swarm
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1984) : Cicada Queen
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1985) : Sunken Gardens
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1986) : Dinner in Audoghast
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1986) : Green Days in Brunei
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1986) : Schismatrix
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Flowers of Edo
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Flowers of Edo
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1989) : Islands in the Net
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1989) : Our Neural Chernobyl
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1989) : Islands in the Net
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1990) : Dori Bangs
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1990) : Dori Bangs
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Difference Engine
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Difference Engine
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1997) : Bicycle Repairman
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1997) : Holy Fire
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1999) : Distraction
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1999) : Maneki Neko
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1999) : Taklamakan
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1999) : Distraction
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book winner (2000) : Distraction
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (2000) : Taklamakan
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2010) : The Caryatids


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