Bicycle Repairman Explained

Bicycle Repairman
Author:Bruce Sterling
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Science fiction short story
Publication Type:Anthology
Published In:Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology
Publisher:Tor Books
Media Type:Hardback
Pub Date:1996

"Bicycle Repairman" is a postcyberpunk short story by American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling. It deals with the eponymous character, who lives in a functioning anarchist community in the near future and has an encounter with the misguided authorities. As is common in Sterling's stories, it deals with issues of markets, governance and the tensions between the two.

"Bicycle Repairman" was first published in Intersections in 1996. It won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1997. It was reprinted in a 1999 collection of Sterling's work, A Good Old-Fashioned Future,[1] and again in 2007 in .

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bruce Sterling: A Good Old-Fashioned Future - an infinity plus review. Nick Gevers. Infinity Plus. 23 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101124110601/http://infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/oldfash.htm. 24 November 2010 . live.