Bruce Sterling
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Websites : Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond at Wired, Bruce Sterling at the European Graduate School
Bruce Sterling is a noted cyber/sci-fi author and tech commentator. He is the author of The Hacker Crackdown, Holy Fire, and The Zenith Angle, among others.
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Primary Contributions (1)
Science fiction, a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term science fiction was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gernsback. The Hugo…
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Publications (3)
Distraction
Hot on the heels of his Hugo-nominated Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling serves up Distraction, one of the most rigorously imagined portraits of 21st-century American life ever put to paper. Anyone with more than a passing interest in science fiction -- anyone who appreciates fiction that illuminates the relationship between the vast, impersonal forces of social change and the increasingly beleaguered life of the individual -- is advised, without reservation, to read this book.Library...
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Zeitgeist
it’s 1999, And In The Turkish Half Of Cyprus, The Ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz Has Alighted — Pausing On His Mission To Storm The Third World With The G-7 Girls, The Cheapest, Phoniest All-girl Rock Group Ever To Wear Wonderbras And Spandex.his Market Is Staring Him In The Face: Millions Of Teenagers Trapped In A World Of Mullahs And Mosques, All Ready To Blow Their Pocket Change On G-7’s Massive Merchandising Campaign — And To Wildly Anticipate Music The...
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