(born April 14 , 1954 ) is an American Science Fiction Author , best known for his novels and his seminal work on the '' Mirrorshades '' Anthology , which defined the Cyberpunk genre. In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the European Graduate School where he is teaching Summer Intensive Courses on media and design. In 2005, he became "visionary in residence" at Art Center College Of Design in Pasadena , California .
As of January 2006, he was living in Belgrade with his wife, Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tesanovic . {Link without Title}
Sterling is, along with William Gibson , Tom Maddox , Rudy Rucker , John Shirley , Lewis Shiner and Pat Cadigan , one of the founders of the Cyberpunk movement in science fiction, as well as its chief Ideological promulgator, and one whose Polemics on the topic earned him the nickname "Chairman Bruce". He is also one of the first organizers of Turkey City Writer's Workshop . He won Hugo Award s for the novelette "Bicycle Repairman" and the novella "Taklamakan".
His first novel, ''Involution Ocean'', published in 1977 , features the world Nullaqua where all the Atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep Crater ; the story concerns a ship sailing on the Ocean of dust at the bottom, which hunts creatures called dustwhales that live beneath the surface. It is a science-fictional Pastiche of '' Moby-Dick '' by Herman Melville .
In the late is colonised, with two major warring factions. The Mechanists use a great deal of computer-based mechanical technologies; the Shapers do Genetic Engineering on a massive scale. The situation is complicated by the eventual contact with Alien Civilization s; humanity eventually splits into many subspecies, with the implication that many of these effectively vanish from the Galaxy , reminiscent of The Singularity in the works of Vernor Vinge . The Shaper/Mechanist stories can be found in the collection ''Crystal Express'' and the collection ''Schismatrix Plus'', which contains the original novel ''Schismatrix'' and all of the stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe.
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In his hometown of Austin , Texas , the author is known for an annual Christmas yard party that features Digital Art .
In the 1980s , Sterling edited a series of science fiction newsletters called Cheap Truth , under the alias of Vincent Omniaveritas. He wrote a column called '' Catscan '', for the now-defunct science fiction critical magazine, SF Eye .
He has been the instigator of two projects which can be found on the Web -
- The Dead Media Project - A collection of "research notes" on dead media technologies, from Inca n Quipu s, through Victorian Phenakistoscope s, to the departed Video Games and home computers of the 1980s. The Project's homepage, including Sterling's original ''Dead Media Manifesto'' can be found at http://www.deadmedia.org
- The . WorldChanging contributors include many of the original members of the Viridian "curia".
In the December 2005 issue of Wired magazine, Sterling coined the term buckyjunk. Buckyjunk refers to future, difficult-to-recycle consumer waste made of carbon nanotubes (aka buckytubes, based on buckyballs or Buckminsterfullerene ).
- '' Involution Ocean '' (1977) - a kind of SFnal Moby Dick story set on a desert planet with sex and drugs with an alien
- '' The Artificial Kid '' (1980) - about a young street fighter who continuously films himself using remote controlled cameras
- '' who makes history many times throughout the story.
- '' Islands In The Net '' (1988) - a view of an early 21st Century world apparently peaceful with delocalised, networking Corporation s. The protagonist, swept up in events beyond her control, finds herself in the places off the net, from a datahaven in Grenada , to a Singapore under Terrorist attack, and the poorest and most disaster-struck part of Africa .
- '' The Difference Engine '' (1990) (with William Gibson ) - Steampunk
- '' Heavy Weather '' (1994) - about hi-tech Storm Chaser s in a midwest where Greenhouse Warming has made Tornado es far more energetic that the present day.
- '' Holy Fire '' (1996) - about a world of steadily increasing longevity ( Gerontocracy ), the marginalised Subculture of young Artist s, and the nature of the posthuman mind.
- '' Distraction '' (1998) - a master political strategist and a genius genetic researcher find love as they fight an insane Louisiana governor for control of a high-tech scientific facility in a post-collapse United States . Winner of the 2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award . US editions: ISBN 0553104845 (hardcover), ISBN 0553576399 (paperback)
- '' Zeitgeist '' (2000) - A Girl Group ala the Spice Girls tours the Middle East under the direction of Trickster Leggy Starlitz . Introduces the concept of Major Consensus Narrative .
- '' The Zenith Angle '' (2004) - a non-SF techno-thriller (or very near-future SF, looking at some of the gimmicks) about a cyber-security expert who goes to work for the US government fighting terrorism after 9/11.
- '' Mirrorshades : A Cyberpunk Anthology'' (1986) - defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling
- ''Crystal Express'' (1989) - a collection of short stories, including several set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe
- ''Globalhead'' (1992, paperback 1994); ISBN 0-553-56281-9.
- --- " Our Neural Chernobyl "
- --- "Storming the Cosmos"
- --- "The Compassionate, the Digital"
- --- "Jim and Irene"
- --- "The Sword of Damocles"
- --- "The Gulf Wars"
- --- "The Shores of Bohemia"
- --- "The Moral Bullet"
- --- "The Unthinkable"
- --- "We See Things Differently"
- --- "Hollywood Kremlin"
- --- "Are You for 86?"
- --- "Dori Bangs"
- ''A Good Old-fashioned Future'' (1999)
- ---"Maneki Neko"
- ---"Big Jelly" (with Rudy Rucker )
- ---"The Littlest Jackal"
- ---"Sacred Cow"
- ---"Deep Eddy"
- ---"Bicycle Repairman"
- ---" Taklamakan "
- ''Visionary in Residence'' (2006, forthcoming); ISBN 1-56025-841-1
- '' ( HTML version ).
- ''Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the next fifty years'' ( 2002 ) - a popular science approach on Futurology , reflecting Technology , Politics and Culture of the next 50 years. Readers of Sterling will recognize many issues from books like ''Zeitgeist'', ''Distraction'' or ''Holy Fire''.
- ''Shaping Things'' ( 2005 ) is a "book about created objects", i.e. a lengthy essay about design, things and how we will move from the age of Product s and Gizmo s to the age of Spime s (a Sterling neologism). The 150-pages book covers issues like "intelligent things" (spiked with RFID -tags), Sustainability and Fabbing . MIT Press , ISBN 0262693267.
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