Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling ( born April 14, 1954 in Brownsville, Texas) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

His first release was the 1977 novel Involution Ocean (Eng. " The dust Planet " (1984), and later " The dust Ocean "). He is considered the founder of the cyberpunk. Several times he was nominated for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, the latter he received in 1999. Since 2007 he lives in Turin, after he had lived for several years in Belgrade. He is married to his second wife, the Serbian writer and filmmaker Jasmina Tešanović.

Sterling was also known for his political involvement. In 1992 he published his first non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown, subtitled law and disorder in the electronic frontier; in which he describes the hacking scene of the late 80s and crucial events, such as the impact of the U.S. Secret Service against credit card fraudsters, the raid on Steve Jackson Games, and the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This book was published free in electronic form on the Internet.

Sterling is also one of the masterminds behind the Viridian design movement ( " Cyber ​​Green ").

Works

Science fiction

  • The dust Planet also: The dust Ocean, 1984, ISBN 3-453-10931-7, Involution Ocean, 1977
  • Video Kid, 1984, ISBN 3-548-31090-7, The Artificial Kid, 1980
  • Schismatrix, 1989, ISBN 3-886-19958-4, Schismatrix, 1985
  • Islands in the Net, 1990, ISBN 3-453-19664-3, Islands in the Net, 1988
  • The Difference Engine, 1992, ISBN 3-453-52672-4, The Difference Engine, 1990 ( with William Gibson )
  • Severe Weather, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10930-9, Heavy Weather, 1994
  • Holy Fire, 2001, ISBN 3-453-17942-0, Holy Fire, 1996
  • Burning Land, 2001, ISBN 3-453-18774-1, Distraction, 1998
  • Zeitgeist 2000
  • The Zenith Angle, 2004
  • The Caryatids, 2009
  • Black Swan. A cyberpunk story, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86439-010-4, Black Swan, 2010

Short story collections

  • Cicada Queen, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04294-8, Crystal Express, 1989
  • Global Head, 1992
  • A Good Old-Fashioned Future, 1999
  • Visionary in Residence, 2006
  • Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, 2007

As editor

  • Mirror shadow, 1988, ISBN 3-453-03133-4, Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, 1986

Non-Fiction

More Releases

Sterling writes journalistic articles on pop culture, popular science and travel, which appear irregularly in various American magazines.

At two of the short stories contained in Mirrorshades The Cyberpunk Anthology, he was involved as a co-author.

At the book The Glass Bees ( the American edition of "Glass Bees " ( Ernst Jünger) ) he has written the foreword for the 2000 Publisher New York Review Books.

Sterling is one of 18 co-authors of the 2003 published book " The Secret of the Matrix", a collection of essays on the movie " The Matrix."

Furthermore, Sterling wrote a post about DJ Spooky's 2008 published book "Sound Unbound " in which he deals with dead media.

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