Bruce Sterling






Bruce Sterling

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April 14, 1954

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Brownsville, Texas, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy


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Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.




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avg rating: 3.59 | 5,926 ratings | 455 reviews | 58 distinct works | 31 fans
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk An... Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
by Bruce Sterling (Editor)
avg rating 3.99 — 381 ratings — published 1986
6 editions
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Islands in the Net Islands in the Net
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.54 — 375 ratings — published 1988
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Schismatrix Plus Schismatrix Plus
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.94 — 325 ratings — published 1996
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Heavy Weather Heavy Weather
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.72 — 331 ratings — published 1994
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Holy Fire Holy Fire (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.67 — 296 ratings — published 1996
7 editions
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and... The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.82 — 282 ratings — published 1992
6 editions
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Distraction Distraction
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.75 — 208 ratings — published 1998
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Zeitgeist Zeitgeist
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.61 — 183 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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The Artificial Kid The Artificial Kid
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.66 — 144 ratings — published 1980
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future A Good Old-Fashioned Future
by Bruce Sterling
avg rating 3.78 — 133 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."
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"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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"America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss and the Swedes were the types who made good cops. America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic, bipolar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions."
Bruce Sterling (Distraction)
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