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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.
 

Awards: Clarke (2000), Hugo (1999), Campbell (1989)  see all

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
 
Books containing stories by Bruce Sterling
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The Last Dangerous Visions (2024)
(Dangerous Visions, book 3)
edited by
Harlan Ellison
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2 (2024)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 2)
edited by
Jared Shurin
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Distraction
1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Taklamakan
1997 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Bicycle Repairman
1989 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : Islands in the Net

Award nominations
2017 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History (nominee) : Pirate Utopia
2017 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Pirate Utopia
2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Peak of Eternal Light
2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Peak of Eternal Light
2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Goddess of Mercy
2012 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Gothic High-Tech
2010 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History (nominee) : Black Swan
2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Caryatids
2008 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Kiosk
2008 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Hormiga Canyon
2008 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling
2007 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Visionary in Residence
2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Blemmye's Stratagem
2005 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Zenith Angle
2004 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations
2003 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : In Paradise
2001 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Zeitgeist
2000 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Taklamakan
2000 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : A Good Old-Fashioned Future
1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Maneki Neko
1999 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Distraction
1999 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Distraction
1999 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Maneki Neko
1999 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Distraction
1997 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Holy Fire
1997 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Littlest Jackal
1997 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix and Selected Stories from Crystal Express
1997 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Holy Fire
1996 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Holy Fire
1995 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Heavy Weather
1993 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Globalhead
1992 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Difference Engine
1992 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Difference Engine
1992 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Difference Engine
1991 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Difference Engine
1991 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Difference Engine
1990 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Dori Bangs
1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Dori Bangs
1990 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Crystal Express
1990 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Dori Bangs
1990 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Difference Engine
1989 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Islands in the Net
1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Our Neural Chernobyl
1989 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Islands in the Net
1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Flowers of Edo
1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Flowers of Edo
1988 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Flowers of Edo
1986 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Green Days in Brunei
1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Schismatrix
1986 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Green Days in Brunei
1986 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Dinner in Audoghast
1986 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Schismatrix
1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Sunken Gardens
1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Schismatrix
1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Cicada Queen
1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Swarm
1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Spider Rose
1983 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Swarm
1978 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (nominee) : Involution Ocean


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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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