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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.98 — 335 ratings — published 1986 5 editions |
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Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.56 — 336 ratings — published 1988 6 editions |
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Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.94 — 298 ratings — published 1996 4 editions |
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Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.73 — 299 ratings — published 1994 7 editions |
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.84 — 256 ratings — published 1993 6 editions |
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Holy Fire (Bantam Spectra Book) by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.68 — 258 ratings — published 2001 6 editions |
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Distraction by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.74 — 183 ratings — published 1998 5 editions |
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Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.61 — 160 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.64 — 131 ratings — published 1980 6 editions |
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future by Bruce Sterling avg rating 3.75 — 120 ratings — published 1999 2 editions |
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"Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish."
— Bruce Sterling
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— Bruce Sterling
"(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute"
— Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix)
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— Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix)
"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place."
— Bruce Sterling
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— Bruce Sterling
