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Bruce Sterling

Author of The Difference Engine

Includes the names: Brue Sterling, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling Ed., ed. Bruce Sterling, Brice Sterling (toim.), edited by Bruce Sterling, Брюс Стерлинг, ブルース スターリング, ブルース・スターリング ... (see complete list)

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Bruce Sterling is a recent winner of the Nebula Award and the author of the nonfiction book "The Hacker Crackdown" as well as novels and short story collections. He co-authored, with William Gibson, the critically acclaimed novel "The Difference Engine." He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and daughter. (Publisher Provided) — biography from Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology… (more)
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Works by Bruce Sterling
The Difference Engine 5,706 copies, 84 reviews
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (Editor; Preface; Contributor) 1,537 copies, 7 reviews
Islands in the Net 1,425 copies, 14 reviews
Heavy Weather 1,166 copies, 11 reviews
Holy Fire 1,067 copies, 18 reviews
Distraction 1,045 copies, 18 reviews
Schismatrix Plus 999 copies, 15 reviews
The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier 993 copies, 11 reviews
Globalhead 728 copies, 7 reviews
Crystal Express 593 copies, 10 reviews
Schismatrix 574 copies, 6 reviews
Zeitgeist 566 copies, 10 reviews
A Good Old-Fashioned Future 542 copies, 8 reviews
The Artificial Kid 509 copies, 8 reviews
The Zenith Angle 500 copies, 12 reviews
Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets) 415 copies, 10 reviews
The Caryatids 343 copies, 11 reviews
Involution Ocean 328 copies, 4 reviews
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years 326 copies, 5 reviews
Pirate Utopia (Author) 176 copies, 12 reviews
Visionary in Residence: Stories 166 copies, 3 reviews
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling 73 copies
Black Swan 56 copies, 5 reviews
Gothic High-Tech 47 copies
The Art of Alex Gross: Paintings and Other Works 45 copies
Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories 37 copies, 4 reviews
The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things 34 copies, 2 reviews
Twelve Tomorrows - 2014: Visionary stories of the near future (Editor) 29 copies, 1 review
Love Is Strange: A Paranormal Romance 26 copies, 2 reviews
Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by… (Editor; Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review
Kiosk 24 copies, 1 review
Maneki Neko {short story} 16 copies, 2 reviews
Bicycle Repairman {novelette} 15 copies
Red Star, Winter Orbit 13 copies
Dori Bangs [short fiction] 12 copies
Swarm (novelette) 12 copies
The Parthenopean Scalpel 10 copies, 1 review
Good Night, Moon 10 copies, 2 reviews
The Blemmye's Strategem 9 copies, 1 review
Parco giochi con pena di morte (Author) 9 copies
We See Things Differently [short fiction] 9 copies
Taklamakan 9 copies
The Future of the Skyscraper: SOM Thinkers Series 8 copies
Les mailles du réseau 2 8 copies
Les mailles du réseau 1 8 copies
Dinner in Audoghast 8 copies, 1 review
Cicada Queen 8 copies
The Denial 7 copies
Flowers of Edo [short fiction] 7 copies
Sunken Gardens 7 copies
The Exterminator's Want Ad 6 copies, 1 review
The Beautiful and the Sublime 6 copies
Green Days in Brunei 6 copies
Totem Poles 6 copies, 1 review
Our Neural Chernobyl [short fiction] 6 copies
In Paradise 5 copies
Sacred Cow [short fiction] 5 copies
The Dead Media Notebook: 20th Anniversary Edition 5 copies
Mozart in Mirrorshades [short fiction] 5 copies
The Dead Media Notebook 4 copies
The Lustration 4 copies
Twenty Evocations 4 copies, 1 review
Spider Rose (short story) 4 copies
The Little Magic Shop 3 copies
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine 2002 3 copies, 1 review
The Peak of Eternal Light 3 copies, 1 review
Uvejr 3 copies
Ivory Tower 3 copies
A Plain Tale from Our Hills 3 copies
White Fungus 3 copies
Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct 3 copies
Esoteric City 2 copies
Hormiga Canyon [short fiction] (Author) 2 copies
Luciferase [short story] 2 copies
Deep Eddy 2 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 3 & 4 [March/April 2023] (Contributor) 2 copies
Bulletins of The Serving Library #1 2 copies
Hollywood Kremlin 2 copies
Join The Navy And See The Worlds 2 copies
Slipstream {essay} 2 copies
The Master of the Aviary (Short Story) 2 copies
Spook 2 copies
Islands in the Net, book 2 of 2 1 copy
Mai più senza Torino. Due extracomunitari molto speciali alla scoperta… (Author) 1 copy
L'amore è strano 1 copy
Utopia pirata: i *racconti di Bruno Argento 1 copy
Neo-Academism in Saint Petersburg 1 copy, 1 review
The Queen Of Rhode Island 1 copy
My Rihla 1 copy
The Latter Days Of The Law 1 copy
Elephant on Table {short story} 1 copy
Instead of Work 1 copy
Autograph, S.F. Writer, Signed & Stamped Collector Card (Mine) (2) 1 copy
From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter 1 copy
In the Future, Doing Science Is Like Blogging 1 copy
Colliding Branes 1 copy
Computer Entertainment Thirty-five Years From Today 1 copy
User-Centric (short story) 1 copy
The Hypersurface Of the Decade 1 copy
Executive Solutions 1 copy
The Growthing 1 copy
Telliamed 1 copy
When Blobjects Rule the Earth 1 copy
The Littlest Jackal 1 copy
"Catscan: Updike's Version" (in SF EYE v.1, #3) 1 copy
The Interoperation 1 copy
The compassionate, the digital [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Paranoid Critical Method 1 copy
The Shores of Bohemia {novelette} 1 copy
Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Magazine (Phoenix) n. 2 1 copy
The Sword of Damocles {short story} 1 copy, 1 review
Archaeological survey of an eight acre parcel adjacent to the York County… 1 copy
Design Fiction: Sascha Pohflepp & Daisy Ginsberg, 'Growth Assembly' 1 copy
Goddess of Mercy 1 copy
Loco 1 copy
The Unthinkable 1 copy
The Onset Of A Paranormal Romance 1 copy
Midnight on the Rue Jules Verne [short story] 1 copy
Return to the Rue Jules Verne [short story] 1 copy
Tall Tower 1 copy
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Also by Bruce Sterling
Neuromancer (Afterword, some editions) 22,150 copies, 361 reviews
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 16,664 copies, 236 reviews
We: A Novel (Foreword, some editions) 7,964 copies, 207 reviews
Burning Chrome (Preface, some editions) 5,371 copies, 42 reviews
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary… (Contributor) 640 copies, 15 reviews
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century (Contributor) 546 copies, 10 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (Contributor) 515 copies, 4 reviews
The Science Fiction Century (Contributor) 509 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (Contributor) 471 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 464 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Contributor) 449 copies, 3 reviews
Cthulhu 2000 (Contributor) 445 copies, 3 reviews
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (Contributor) 419 copies, 8 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (Contributor) 417 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 398 copies, 2 reviews
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (Contributor) 373 copies, 5 reviews
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (Contributor) 371 copies, 7 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 368 copies, 6 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (Contributor) 359 copies, 6 reviews
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (Contributor) 354 copies, 20 reviews
The Hard SF Renaissance: An Anthology (Contributor) 324 copies, 4 reviews
The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Science Fiction Adventure (Contributor) 310 copies, 10 reviews
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction,… (Contributor) 301 copies, 5 reviews
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Contributor) 298 copies, 14 reviews
Happily Ever After (Contributor) 284 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (Contributor) 274 copies, 6 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (Contributor) 271 copies, 1 review
The Book of Cthulhu (Contributor) 270 copies, 6 reviews
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 256 copies, 10 reviews
Year's Best SF 2 (Contributor) 253 copies, 3 reviews
Year's Best SF 4 (Contributor) 246 copies, 1 review
Year's Best SF 8 (Contributor) 245 copies, 2 reviews
Semiotext(e) SF (Contributor) 244 copies
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern… (Contributor) 242 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (Author) 240 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 228 copies, 4 reviews
Year's Best SF 11 (Contributor) 226 copies, 4 reviews
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (Contributor) 225 copies, 8 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (Contributor) 218 copies, 1 review
Patterns (Introduction, some editions) 201 copies, 1 review
Edge of Infinity (Contributor) 199 copies, 8 reviews
Modern Classics of Fantasy (Contributor) 199 copies, 1 review
Modern Classics of Science Fiction (Contributor) 196 copies, 2 reviews
Year's Best SF 15 (Contributor) 190 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (Contributor) 190 copies, 1 review
The 1983 Annual World's Best SF (Contributor) 189 copies, 1 review
Year's Best SF 13 (Contributor) 184 copies, 4 reviews
Future on Fire (Contributor) 183 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (Author) 183 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (Contributor) 182 copies, 2 reviews
Tales of Old Earth (Foreword) 181 copies, 7 reviews
Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (Contributor) 168 copies, 5 reviews
The Future is Japanese (Contributor) 163 copies, 8 reviews
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two (Contributor) 159 copies, 4 reviews
The Ultimate Cyberpunk (Contributor) 149 copies
Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (Contributor) 146 copies, 2 reviews
Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 144 copies, 6 reviews
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (Contributor) 142 copies, 4 reviews
A Science Fiction Omnibus (Contributor) 141 copies, 3 reviews
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (Contributor, some editions) 132 copies, 4 reviews
Lightspeed: Year One (Contributor) 129 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (Contributor) 123 copies, 1 review
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (Contributor) 122 copies, 2 reviews
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Contributor) 122 copies, 3 reviews
Alien Contact (Contributor) 121 copies, 3 reviews
Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present (Contributor) 117 copies
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary… (Contributor) 116 copies, 3 reviews
Year's Best SF 17 (Contributor) 115 copies, 2 reviews
Hackers (Contributor) 112 copies, 2 reviews
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the… (Introduction) 112 copies, 25 reviews
Futures from Nature (Contributor) 111 copies, 5 reviews
The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition (Contributor) 108 copies
Universe 1 (Contributor) 105 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (Contributor) 103 copies, 3 reviews
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (Contributor) 99 copies
Cyberpunk handbook : the real cyberpunk fakebook (Foreword) 99 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (Contributor) 93 copies
Year's Best SF 18 (Contributor) 88 copies
The Nebula Awards Eighteen (Contributor) 84 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 (Contributor) 83 copies, 1 review
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (Contributor) 82 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (Contributor) 80 copies
After the End: Recent Apocalypses (Contributor) 79 copies, 5 reviews
Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts (Contributor) 79 copies
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (Author) 75 copies, 1 review
Meeting Infinity (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
Year's Best Fantasy 6 (Contributor) 69 copies, 2 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews
Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and… (Contributor) 68 copies
Nebula Awards 23 (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (Contributor) 65 copies
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (Contributor) 63 copies, 1 review
After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (Contributor) 63 copies
When the Music's Over (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Collected Stories (Contributor) 58 copies, 3 reviews
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
Interzone: The 2nd Anthology (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (Contributor) 55 copies, 1 review
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 52 copies, 1 review
Futures Past (Flights) (Contributor) 51 copies
Nebula Awards 27: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy… (Contributor) 49 copies
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C.… (Contributor) 49 copies, 13 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 (Contributor) 49 copies
Under African Skies (Future Earths) (Contributor) 49 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 14 (Contributor) 48 copies
Genometry (Contributor) 43 copies
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 42 copies
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Contributor) 39 copies
Universe 13 (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review
The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 34 copies
Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (Contributor) 33 copies
In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World (Contributor) 32 copies
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (Contributor) 32 copies
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 3 (Contributor) 31 copies
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (Contributor) 27 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1994, Vol.… (Contributor) 26 copies, 1 review
Drabble II: Double Century (Contributor) 25 copies
Rayguns Over Texas (Introduction, some editions) 20 copies
Reading Science Fiction (Contributor) 18 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August/September 2009, Vol.… (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1994, Vol. 86, No. 5 (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1990, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1993, Vol.… (Columnist) 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine (Contributor) 15 copies
Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins (Contributor) 15 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 20, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1996] (Contributor) 15 copies
We, Robots (Contributor) 14 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 9 [September 1989] (Contributor) 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1988, Vol. 74, No. 6 13 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 6 [June 2009] (Contributor) 12 copies, 1 review
Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute (Contributor) 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2010, Vol.… (Author) 12 copies, 1 review
Pwning Tomorrow (Contributor) 11 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 11 • April 2011 (Contributor) 11 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (Contributor) 11 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 18, No. 12 & 13 [November 1994] (Author) 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1982, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Contributor) 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1983, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Contributor) 10 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 22, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1998] (Author) 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1993, Vol. 84, No. 6 (Contributor) 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2002, Vol. 103, No.… (Author) 9 copies, 1 review
Ikarus 2002 (Contributor) 8 copies
Ikarus 2001. Best of Science Fiction. (Contributor) 7 copies
Arc 1.4: Forever alone drone (Contributor) 7 copies
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology, Volume 2+3 (Contributor) 6 copies
Subterranean Magazine Winter 2014 (Contributor) 5 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 36. Folge (Contributor) 4 copies
Lot : det bedste fra Fantasy & science fiction (Author, some editions) 3 copies, 1 review
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 45, No. 7 & 8 [July/August 2021] (Contributor) 3 copies
Supernovæ (Contributor) 2 copies
Science Fiction Eye #12, Summer 1993 (Contributor) 2 copies
Virtuaalisuuden arkeologia. Virtuaalimatkailijan uusi käsikirja 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 (Contributor) 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 (Contributor) 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #10, June 1992 (Contributor) 1 copy
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Sterling, Michael Bruce
Other names
Omniaveritas, Vincent
Date of birth
1954-04-14
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male
Nationality
USA
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Brownsville, Texas, USA
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Brownsville, Texas, USA (birth)
Pasadena, California, USA
Belgrade, Serbia
Turin, Italy
Austin, Texas, USA
Education
Michigan State University (1974 ∙ Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop)
University of Texas at Austin (B.A. Journalism | 1976)
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Tesanovic, Jasmina (wife)
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Turkey City Writer's Workshop
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