Bruce Sterling bibliography explained

The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Works

Novels

• Involution Ocean (1977)

A science fiction version of Moby Dick, set in a deep crater filled with dust instead of water, featuring an impossible romance between the protagonist and an alien woman. The book was published as part of a series of books by new authors discovered by Harlan Ellison and was marketed as such.

• The Artificial Kid (1980)

A novel about a young street fighter who continuously films himself using remote controlled cameras.

• Schismatrix (1985)

Nebula Award nominee, 1985;^[1] British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, 1986^[2]

The 23rd century solar system is divided among two human factions: the "Shapers" who are employing genetics and psychology, and the "Mechanists" who use computers and body prosthetics. The novel is narrated from the viewpoint of Abelard Lindsay, a brilliant diplomat who makes history many times throughout the story.

• Islands in the Net (1988)

Campbell Award winner, 1989;^[3] Hugo Award nominee, 1989;^[3] Locus SF Award nominee, 1989^[3]

A view of an apparently peaceful early twenty-first century with delocalised, networking corporations. 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)

BSFA Award nominee, 1990;^[4] Nebula Award nominee, 1991;^[5] Campbell Award nominee, 1992^[6]

A steampunk alternate history novel set in a Victorian Great Britain in the throes of a steam-driven computer revolution.

• Heavy Weather (1994)

Follows high-tech storm chasers in the American midwest where greenhouse warming has made tornadoes far more energetic than the present day.

• Holy Fire (1996)

BSFA Award nominee, 1996;^[7] Hugo Award nominee, 1997;^[8] Locus SF Award nominee, 1997^[8]

Set in a world of steadily increasing longevity (gerontocracy), a newly rejuvenated American woman drifts through the marginalised subculture of young European artists while dealing with the implications of posthumanism.

• Distraction (1998)

Campbell Award nominee, 1999;^[9] Hugo Award nominee, 1999;^[9] Locus SF Award nominee, 1999;^[9] Clarke Award winner, 2000^[10]

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. US editions: (hardcover), (paperback).

• Zeitgeist (2000)

Locus SF Award nominee, 2001^[11]

A girl group à la the Spice Girls tours the Middle East under the direction of trickster Leggy Starlitz. Explores a world in which postmodernism and deconstructionism were literally true in their postulation of reality.

• The Zenith Angle (2004)

A techno-thriller about a cyber-security expert who goes to work for the U.S. government fighting terrorism after 9/11.

• The Caryatids (February 2009)

Sibling clones, four female and one male, of the widow of a Balkan war criminal living on a space station, may be able to rescue the Earth from environmental collapse in 2060.^[12]

• Love Is Strange (December 2012)
• Pirate Utopia (November 2016), novella, a dieselpunk alternative history set in the Italian Regency of Carnaro.

Short stories

• Black Swan, 40k, ebook edition, (English | Italian | Portuguese) (2010)
• The Parthenopean Scalpel, 40k, ebook edition, (English | Italian | Portuguese) (2010)
• My Pretty Alluvian Bride, in Brave New Now (edited Liam Young) ebook edition, (English) (2014)
• "Balkan Cosmology" (English) (2022)

Anthology

• Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) – defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling;
  • "The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson
  • "Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox
  • "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan
  • "Tales of Houdini" by Rudy Rucker
  • "400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw
  • "Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly
  • "Petra" by Greg Bear
  • "Till Human Voices Wake Us" by Lewis Shiner
  • "Freezone" by John Shirley
  • "Stone Lives" by Paul Di Filippo
  • "Red Star, Winter Orbit" by Bruce Sterling, William Gibson
  • "Mozart in Mirrorshades" by Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner

Short story collections

• Crystal Express (1989) – a collection of short stories, including several set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe;
  • "Swarm"
  • "Spider Rose"
  • "Cicada Queen"
  • "Sunken Gardens"
  • "Twenty Evocations"
  • "Green Days in Brunei"
  • "Spook"
  • "The Beautiful and the Sublime"
  • "Telliamed"
  • "The Little Magic Shop"
  • "Flowers of Edo"
  • "Dinner in Audoghast"
• Globalhead (1992, paperback 1994);
  • "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"
• Schismatrix Plus (1996) - complete Shapers-Mechanists universe
  • Schismatrix
  • "Swarm"
  • "Spider Rose"
  • "Cicada Queen"
  • "Sunken Gardens"
  • "Twenty Evocations"
• 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);
  • "In Paradise"
  • "Luciferase"
  • "Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct"
  • "Ivory Tower"
  • "Message Found in a Bottle"
  • "The Growthing"
  • "User-Centric"
  • "Code"
  • "The Scab's Progress"
  • "Junk DNA"
  • "The Necropolis of Thebes"
  • "The Blemmye's Stratagem"
  • "The Denial"
• Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (2007);
  • "Swarm"
  • "Spider Rose"
  • "Cicada Queen"
  • "Sunken Gardens"
  • "Twenty Evocations"
  • "Green Days in Brunei"
  • "Dinner in Audoghast"
  • "The Compassionate, the Digital"
  • "Flowers of Edo"
  • "The Little Magic Shop"
  • "Our Neural Chernobyl"
  • "We See Things Differently"
  • "Dori Bangs"
  • "Hollywood Kremlin"
  • "Are You For 86?"
  • "The Littlest Jackal"
  • "Deep Eddy"
  • "Bicycle Repairman"
  • "Taklamakan"
  • "The Sword of Damocles"
  • "Maneki Neko"
  • "In Paradise"
  • "The Blemmye's Strategem"
  • "Kiosk"
• Gothic High-Tech (2012);
  • "I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google"
  • "Kiosk"
  • "The Hypersurface of This Decade"
  • "White Fungus"
  • "The Exterminator's Want Ad"
  • "Esoteric City"
  • "The Parthenopean Scalpel"
  • "The Lustration"
  • "Windsor Executive Solutions" (with Chris Nakashima-Brown)
  • "A Plain Tale from Our Hills"
  • "The Interoperation"
  • "Black Swan"
• Transreal Cyberpunk (2016) by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling;
  • "Big Jelly"
  • "Storming the Cosmos"
  • "Junk DNA"
  • "Hormiga Canyon"
  • "Colliding Branes"
  • "Good Night, Moon"
  • "Loco"
  • "Totem Poles"
  • "Kraken and Sage"
• Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (2021);
  • "Kill the Moon"
  • "Black Swan"
  • "Elephant on Table"
  • "Pilgrims of the Round World"
  • "The Parthenopean Scalpel"
  • "Esoteric City"
  • "Robot in Roses"

Anthologies

• Book: Sterling, Bruce . Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review 2014 . MIT Press . 2014 . 0262535599-->.

Non-fiction

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992) – about the panic of law enforcers in the late 1980s about 'hackers' and the raid on Steve Jackson Games as part of Operation Sun Devil. Spectra Books, .
• 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 products and gizmos to the age of spimes (a Sterling neologism). The 150-pages book covers issues like "intelligent things" (spiked with RFID-tags), sustainability and "fabbing". MIT Press, .
• The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things (2014), an ebook examining the hype behind the Internet of Things and a world of connected objects.

External links

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier via Feedbooks.com (HTML version)
• Reason Magazine Interview with Bruce Sterling (archive)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1985 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 10 May 2009.
2. Web site: 1986 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 10 May 2009.
3. Web site: 1989 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
4. Web site: 1990 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
5. Web site: 1991 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
6. Web site: 1992 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
7. Web site: 1996 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
8. Web site: 1997 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
9. Web site: 1999 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
10. Web site: 2000 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
11. Web site: 2001 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 12 May 2009.
12. http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345460622 Del Rey Online | The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling