Bruce Sterling Books In Order
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Schismatrix | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crystal Express | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Schismatrix Plus | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Artificial Kid | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Islands in the Net | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Difference Engine | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heavy Weather | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holy Fire | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Distraction | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zeitgeist | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Zenith Angle | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caryatids | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love is Strange | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pirate Utopia | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Dinner in Audoghast (in Asimov's) | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flowers of Edo (in Asimov's) | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Our Neural Chernobyl (in F&SF) | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dori Bangs (in Asimov's) | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Eddy (in Asimov's) | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bicycle Repairman (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future) | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maneki Neko (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future) | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Taklamakan (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future) | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Parthenopean Scalpel | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Swan | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Good Night, Moon | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Loco | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totem Poles | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Globalhead | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Good Old-Fashioned Future | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Visionary in Residence | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gothic High-Tech | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Harlan Ellison Discovery Books
Autumn Angels | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Light at the End of the Universe | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Involution Ocean | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Lone Star Universe | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Universe 13 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 18 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirrorshades | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drabble II: Double Century | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Semiotext SF | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Storming the Reality Studio | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1992 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under African Skies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ascent of Wonder | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paragons | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hackers | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Century | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modern Classics of Fantasy | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 2 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Good New Stuff | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 4 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Genometry | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Cyberpunk | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supermen | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 8 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year\'s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rewired | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 13 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Happily Ever After | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steampunk III | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Rapture | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the End | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hieroglyph | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transreal Cyberpunk | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling was born in Brownsville, Texas on April 14, 1954. He is a journalist, an author, critic and contributing editor of Wired magazine, a job he’s had since their inception in 1999.
At the start of his childhood he was living in Galveston, Texas until his family moved to India. Bruce spent many years in India and gained a fondness for Bollywood films. In the year 1976, he graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism.
He lived for several years in Belgrade with Serbian filmmaker and author Jasmina Tesanovic, and married her in the year 2005.
Three of his novels were picked as New York Times Notable Books of Year. “Islands in the Net” won the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel in 1989. “Taklamakan” and “Bicycle Repairman” each won a Hugo Award for Best Novellette. “Taklamakan” also won a Hayakawa Award for Best Foreign Short Story. “Distraction” won an Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Book in 2000.
Bruce has edited the anthology Mirrorshades, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. As a result of his work on this anthology, he is credited as one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in the science fiction field. He has also written for various magazines, which include Fortune, Newsweek, Details, Harper’s, Wired, and Earth Review.
He sold his first science fiction story in the year 1976, which was titled “Man-Made Self”. Bruce first got famous by hosting a yearly Christmas event to present different digital art.
Bruce’s debut novel, called “Involution Ocean”, was released in the year 1977. His work is from the non-fiction, paranormal romance, and science fiction genres.
“Islands in the Net” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1988. Laura Webster is currently on the fast track to success. She is a bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, and living well in a post-millennial age of prosperity, peace, and profit.
In an age of advanced tech, information is the most precious commodity in the entire world. Information truly is power. Data is locked up in computers and carefully rationed out through a global communications network. Full access is now a privilege held by very few.
Now, Laura Webster is going to be plunged into this netherworld of black-market data pirates, high-tech voodoo, new-age mercenaries, and murder.
“The Caryatids” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 2009. The world in 2060 has been divided in three spheres of influence, with each one battling with the others over the resources of the fallen nations and the environment has come close to degrading to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in the city of Los Angeles, where capitalism and entertainment have fused with the highest of high-tech. There’s Acquis, a Green-centered collective which uses invasive neurological tech to create this networked utopia. There’s also China, the sole surviving nation-state, which is a dinosaur that has been able to prosper only by pitilessly pruning its own population.
The products of this monstrous world, the daughters of a monstrous mom, and monsters themselves (at least, according to some) are the Caryatids. These are the four surviving female clones of one crazy Balkan genius and wanted war criminal who is no protected, beyond extradition, on the orbiting space station.
Radmilla is a Dispensation star that is determined to forget all about her past and build an impregnable and glittering future for herself. Sonja works as a medical specialist in China and is renowned for selflessly risking her own life for to help others. Vera is an Acquis functionary dedicated to reclaim their homeland, which is the Croatian Island of Mljet, from the catastrophic pollution. Then there is Biserka, who is a one woman terrorist network. These four ‘sisters’ are united just by their hatred for their ‘mom’. And for one another.
When there is evidence of a looming environmental catastrophe, the Dispensation sends out its best statesman, or salesman, named John Montgomery Montalban, Radmilla’s husband, and lover to both Sonja and Vera. This is in order to gather the Caryatids together in quite the audacious effort to save the world.
“Love is Strange” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 2012. They are futurists and in love. They do not believe in romantic happy endings whatsoever. Farfalla Corrado is a globetrotting Italian witch, and has been trained to do Brazilian voodoo. Farfalla is able to tell real fortunes, speak real curses, see some real ghosts. Farfalla does not just know about the future, she is able to actually feel it in the twisted and dark depths of her heart.
Gavin Tremaine, a high-tech Seattle venture capitalist, is also able to forecast the future, spot the trends, and invest in many different business models. Gavin’s got a huge future ahead of him. Unfortunately, he knows what that big future holds for all of the little people.
Their worlds collide, and history starts crumbling. They know already just how this love story is certain to end. And it is not what the other one expects it to be.
“Pirate Utopia” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 2016. Who are these bold rebels that pillage their European neighbors in revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Mortal enemies of capitalists, communists, and even fascists (to whom are entirely unsympathetic with).
These ambitious Soldier-Citizens of Carnaro are being led by a passionate and brilliant coterie of the possibly insane. Lorenzo Secondari, who is an engineering genius, a World War One veteran, and a leader of Croatian raiders. The Ace of Hearts, who is a spymaster, a dashing Milanese aristocrat, and tactical savant. Frau Piffer, who is a Syndicalist manufacturer of torpedoes at the factory ran for and by women. Then there is the Prophet, who is a seductive warrior-poet that leads via military ruthlessness and free love.
Just off of a worldwide demonstration of their powers, will the Futurists engage the help of American traitors and establish their global domination?
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