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Bruce Sterling

USA  (1954 - )
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About Bruce Sterling
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.
 
Anthologies edited
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
 
Non fiction
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic FrontierTomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
 
Anthologies containing stories by Bruce Sterling
Universe 13The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12The Nebula Awards 18The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12Nebula Awards 23The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual CollectionThe Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Future Earths : Under African SkiesThe Norton Book of Science FictionThe Ascent of WonderThe Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary AnthologyCthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian AnthologyHackersModern Classics of Fantasy
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual CollectionYear's Best SF 2The Science Fiction CenturyThe Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection
The Good New StuffYear's Best SF 4Genometry
 
Short stories
Big Jelly (with Rudy Rucker)
Deep Eddy
DUMMY1
Littlest Jackal
Spider Rose (1982)Hugo (nominee)
Swarm (1982)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula (nominee)
Cicada Queen (1983)Nebula (nominee)
Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations (1984)
Sunken Gardens (1984)Nebula (nominee)
Dinner in Audoghast (1985)Hugo (nominee)
Green Days in Brunei (1985)Nebula (nominee)
The Unfolding (1985) (with John Shirley)
The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986)
Flowers of Edo (1987)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula (nominee)
Our Neural Chernobyl (1988)Hugo (nominee)
Dori Bangs (1989)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula (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 (nominee)


Awards
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1983) : Spider Rose
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1983) : Swarm
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1983) : Swarm
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1984) : Cicada Queen
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1985) : Sunken Gardens
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1986) : Dinner in Audoghast
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1986) : Green Days in Brunei
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1986) : Schismatrix
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Flowers of Edo
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Flowers of Edo
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1989) : Islands in the Net
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1989) : Our Neural Chernobyl
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1989) : Islands in the Net
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1990) : Dori Bangs
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1990) : Dori Bangs
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Difference Engine
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Difference Engine
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1997) : Bicycle Repairman
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1997) : Holy Fire
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1999) : Distraction
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1999) : Maneki Neko
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1999) : Taklamakan
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1999) : Distraction
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel winner (2000) : Distraction
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (2000) : Taklamakan


Bruce Sterling recommends
Homunculus
Homunculus (1986)
(Langdon St. Ives, book 1)
James P Blaylock
"A writer of great vigor, charm, and perception."
Mindplayers
Mindplayers (1987)
Pat Cadigan
"Has a bite like a silk piranha."
White Queen
White Queen (1991)
(Aleutian, book 1)
Gwyneth Jones
"Thoroughly original, genuinely weird, and stuffed to bursting with deep-dyed genre virtue."
Corrupting Dr Nice
Corrupting Dr Nice (1996)
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
Demons (2000)
John Shirley
"John Shirley accomplishes things that most writers would not dare to attempt."
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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."



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