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, Paranormal Romance
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)
Love Is Strange (2012)
Pirate Utopia (2016)
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)
Love Is Strange (2012)
Pirate Utopia (2016)
Collections
Global Head (1992)
A Good Old-Fashioned Future (1999)
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003) (with A A Jackson, Leigh Kennedy, George R R Martin, Joseph F Pumilia, Buddy Sanders, Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop)
Visionary in Residence (2006)
Ascendancies (2007)
Gothic High-Tech (2012)
#cyberpunkNOW and the Dystopian Moment: The London Reader, Volume One (2020) (with George Bartlett, Will Cerbone, William Gibson, Ike Hamil, Zak Kain, Alexander H Maurice, Lena Ng, Kim Stanley Robinson, Reishi Rousseau, Benn Ward and Dann Was)
Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (2021)
A Good Old-Fashioned Future (1999)
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003) (with A A Jackson, Leigh Kennedy, George R R Martin, Joseph F Pumilia, Buddy Sanders, Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop)
Visionary in Residence (2006)
Ascendancies (2007)
Gothic High-Tech (2012)
#cyberpunkNOW and the Dystopian Moment: The London Reader, Volume One (2020) (with George Bartlett, Will Cerbone, William Gibson, Ike Hamil, Zak Kain, Alexander H Maurice, Lena Ng, Kim Stanley Robinson, Reishi Rousseau, Benn Ward and Dann Was)
Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (2021)
Novellas
Black Swan (2010)
The Parthenopean Scalpel (2010)
Good Night, Moon (2011) (with Rudy Rucker)
Loco (2012) (with Rudy Rucker)
Totem Poles (2016) (with Rudy Rucker)
The Parthenopean Scalpel (2010)
Good Night, Moon (2011) (with Rudy Rucker)
Loco (2012) (with Rudy Rucker)
Totem Poles (2016) (with Rudy Rucker)
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Bruce Sterling
Universe 13 (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
The Nebula Awards 18 (1983)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Future Earths : Under African Skies (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
Cthulhu 2000 (1995)
Hackers (1996)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
Year's Best SF 2 (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Good New Stuff (1999)
Year's Best SF 4 (1999)
Genometry (2002)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
The Nebula Awards 18 (1983)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Future Earths : Under African Skies (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
Cthulhu 2000 (1995)
Hackers (1996)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
Year's Best SF 2 (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Good New Stuff (1999)
Year's Best SF 4 (1999)
Genometry (2002)
Short stories
Big Jelly (with Rudy Rucker) | |||
Deep Eddy | |||
Littlest Jackal | |||
Spider Rose (1982) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
Swarm (1982) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
Cicada Queen (1983) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations (1984) | |||
Sunken Gardens (1984) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
Dinner in Audoghast (1985) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
Green Days in Brunei (1985) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
The Unfolding (1985) (with John Shirley) | |||
The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986) | |||
Flowers of Edo (1987) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
Our Neural Chernobyl (1988) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
Dori Bangs (1989) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
We See Things Differently (1989) | |||
The Unthinkable (1991) | |||
Sacred Cow (1993) | |||
Bicycle Repairman (1996) | Hugo | ||
Maneki Neko (1998) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
Taklamakan (1998) | Hugo Nebula Awards (nominee) |
Awards
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Bruce Sterling recommends

Homunculus (1986)
(Langdon St. Ives, book 1)
James P Blaylock
"A writer of great vigor, charm, and perception."

White Queen (1991)
(Aleutian, book 1)
Gwyneth Jones
"Thoroughly original, genuinely weird, and stuffed to bursting with deep-dyed genre virtue."

Corrupting Dr Nice (1997)
John Kessel
"Kessel's darkly comic vision is wackily funny, brilliantly cruel, and joitingly powerful - like silly putty cut with high tech plastic explosives."

Demons (2000)
John Shirley
"John Shirley accomplishes things that most writers would not dare to attempt."

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)
Cory Doctorow
"He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture. Science Fiction needs Cory Doctorow."

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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