Bruce Sterling
Raven, Paul LU
(2022)
p.215-220
- Abstract
- This chapter introduces US author, journalist, blogger, and futurist Bruce Sterling. Since his science fiction (sf) debut with the story “Man-Made Self” (1976), Bruce Sterling has so far published eleven novels (plus one in collaboration with William Gibson), over 70 pieces of short fiction (not including dozens of collaborations), and a handful of chapbooks in various media, accruing a number of awards and accolades in the process. He edited the influential Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) and served for two years (2014-15) as editor of Twelve Tomorrows, MIT Technology Review’s Science Fiction Annual. Sterling’s career beyond sf is marked by a fascination with media and with design, which is perhaps not surprising; after all,... (More)
- This chapter introduces US author, journalist, blogger, and futurist Bruce Sterling. Since his science fiction (sf) debut with the story “Man-Made Self” (1976), Bruce Sterling has so far published eleven novels (plus one in collaboration with William Gibson), over 70 pieces of short fiction (not including dozens of collaborations), and a handful of chapbooks in various media, accruing a number of awards and accolades in the process. He edited the influential Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) and served for two years (2014-15) as editor of Twelve Tomorrows, MIT Technology Review’s Science Fiction Annual. Sterling’s career beyond sf is marked by a fascination with media and with design, which is perhaps not surprising; after all, the “cyber” in cyberpunk means control, and control necessitates technologies of communication. Sterling’s interest, however, is not (only) directed at the abstract or conceptual-he has consistently shown himself to be more interested in the actuality of the technoscientific frontier than the literary-metaphorical. (Less)
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- Raven, Paul
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- publishing date
- 2022-05-13
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture
- editor
- McFarlane, Anna ; Murphy, Graham J and Schmeink, Lars
- pages
- 215 - 220
- publisher
- Routledge
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- scopus:85140187770
- ISBN
- 9780367549138
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003091189
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- English
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