Bruce Bethke has been a surfer, rock musician, teacher, and sausage maker before settling down to the life of writer and software developer in the wilds of Minnesota. His fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Weird Tales, and Easyriders. He invented the word "Cyberpunk" in his short novel of the same name, and he is perhaps less celebrated for being the author of more than two hundred computer software books, manuals, and articles.