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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)
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
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Distraction 1,045 copies, 18 reviews
Schismatrix Plus 999 copies, 15 reviews
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Crystal Express 593 copies, 10 reviews
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future 542 copies, 8 reviews
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The Zenith Angle 500 copies, 12 reviews
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Involution Ocean 328 copies, 4 reviews
Pirate Utopia (Author) 176 copies, 12 reviews
Visionary in Residence: Stories 166 copies, 3 reviews
Black Swan 56 copies, 5 reviews
Kiosk 24 copies, 1 review
Maneki Neko {short story} 16 copies, 2 reviews
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Good Night, Moon 10 copies, 2 reviews
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Totem Poles 6 copies, 1 review
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Twenty Evocations 4 copies, 1 review
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We: A Novel (Foreword, some editions) 7,964 copies, 207 reviews
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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
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (Author) 75 copies, 1 review
Meeting Infinity (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
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Isaac Asimov's Utopias (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews
Nebula Awards 23 (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review
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When the Music's Over (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Collected Stories (Contributor) 58 copies, 3 reviews
Interzone: The 2nd Anthology (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 52 copies, 1 review
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Rayguns Over Texas (Introduction, some editions) 20 copies
Reading Science Fiction (Contributor) 18 copies
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 11 • April 2011 (Contributor) 11 copies, 1 review
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Subterranean Magazine Winter 2014 (Contributor) 5 copies
Lot : det bedste fra Fantasy & science fiction (Author, some editions) 3 copies, 1 review
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