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Bruce Sterling
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American author, speaker and futurist (born 1954)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- April 14, 1954
- Works
- 84
Top works
- Glass Bees
- Islands in the Net
- Meeting Infinity
- Wastelands 2
- Futurs à gogos
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Known for
- Traceroute — Self2016
- AfterVille - The Movie2008
- Freedom Downtime — Self2001
- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
- Blackflag — Sergeant Alan Sheen aka Orange
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Michael Bruce Sterling , ( 1954-04-14 ) April 14, 1954 (age 72) , Brownsville, Texas , U.S.
- Pen name
- Vincent Omniaveritas (in fanzine Cheap Truth )
- Occupation
- Writer speaker futurist design instructor
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin ( BA )
- Period
- 1970s–present
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Subject
- Cyberpunk
- Literary movement
- Cyberpunk/ postcyberpunk
- Spouse
- Jasmina Tešanović ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2005 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brownsville
- Spouse
- Jasmina Tešanović
- Occupation
- designer
- Educated at
- University of Texas at Austin
- Employer
- European Graduate School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Genre
- cyberpunk
- Official website
- blog.wired.com/sterling
- Image
- Bruce Sterling 2.jpg
- Work location
- Turin
- Residence
- Ibiza
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- Commons category
- Bruce Sterling
- date of birth
- 1954-04-14
- Commons gallery
- Bruce Sterling
- influenced by
- Samuel R. Delany
- nominated for
- Theodore Sturgeon Award
- Commons Creator page
- Bruce Sterling
- name in native language
- Bruce Sterling
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- social media followers
- 7885
- hashtag
- brucesterling
- described at URL
- v2.nl/people/bruce-sterling
- writing language
- English language
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Bruce Sterling, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~7 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.
Sterling's first science-fiction story, "Man-Made Self", was sold in 1976. He is the author of science-fiction novels, including Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988), and Heavy Weather (1994). In 1992, he published his first non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.
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