File:Bruce_Sterling_2.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Bruce Sterling
Sign in to saveAlso known as Michael Bruce Sterling, Michael Sterling
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
Acting
Known for
- Traceroute — Self2016
- AfterVille - The Movie2008
- Freedom Downtime — Self2001
- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
- Blackflag — Sergeant Alan Sheen aka Orange
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1954
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 373
- Total plays
- 6,067
Tags
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the European Graduate School where he is teaching Summer Intensive Courses on media and design. In 2005, he became "visionary in residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Sterling is, along with William Gibson <a href="https://www.last.fm
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,169x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,740x
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,058x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 15,922x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “This was the nature of secular power. Industrial power. It was the West that invented it, that invented Hitler, the gutter orator turned trampler of nations, that invented Stalin, the man they called “Genghis Khan with a telephone.” The media pop star, the politician. Was there any difference anymore? Not in America; it was all a question of seizing eyes, of seizing attention. Attention is wealth, in an age of mass media. Center stage is more important than armies.”
- “Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?”
- “As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.”
- “Interstitialism is very postmodern, in that it calls old definitions into question without bothering to invent plausible new ones.”
- “There are a lot of times and places where "humanity" is headed in no place in particular. Those scenes interest me. Like, little European cultures with weird minority languages, who are just hanging around in obscure mountain valleys, making clay pots and singing, and knifing each other on Tuesdays... It's not like we all line up and dash like mad for some end-goal called "The Future." There's no victory-condition for being human. The future is just a kind of history that hasn't happened yet.”
- “These people are setting entire new standards for nightmarish postindustrial anti-chic. Only heavy-duty cosmopolitan San Francisco Bay area performance artists, who double as the Dilberts from Hell, could dress with such miraculous anti-fashion sense. ... Mark Pauline is a creative force first, a human being second, and a nice guy at a very distant tenth.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
- Official website
- blog.wired.com/sterling
- Image
- Bruce Sterling 2.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Bruce Sterling
- date of birth
- 1954-04-14
- Commons gallery
- Bruce Sterling
- 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
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
Article
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.