Bruce Sterling bibliography

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The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

A science fiction version of Moby Dick, set in a deep crater filled with dust instead of water, featuring an impossible romance between the protagonist and an alien woman. The book was published as part of a series of books by new authors discovered by Harlan Ellison and was marketed as such.
A novel about a young street fighter who continuously films himself using remote controlled cameras.
Nebula Award nominee, 1985;[1] British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, 1986[2]
The 23rd century solar system is divided among two human factions: the "Shapers" who are employing genetics and psychology, and the "Mechanists" who use computers and body prosthetics. The novel is narrated from the viewpoint of Abelard Lindsay, a brilliant diplomat who makes history many times throughout the story.
Campbell Award winner, 1989;[3] Hugo Award nominee, 1989;[3] Locus SF Award nominee, 1989[3]
A view of an apparently peaceful early twenty-first century with delocalised, networking corporations. The protagonist, swept up in events beyond her control, finds herself in the places off the net, from a datahaven in Grenada, to a Singapore under terrorist attack, and the poorest and most disaster-struck part of Africa.
BSFA Award nominee, 1990;[4] Nebula Award nominee, 1991;[5] Campbell Award nominee, 1992[6]
A steampunk alternate history novel set in a Victorian Great Britain in the throes of a steam-driven computer revolution.
Follows high-tech storm chasers in the American midwest where greenhouse warming has made tornadoes far more energetic than the present day.
BSFA Award nominee, 1996;[7] Hugo Award nominee, 1997;[8] Locus SF Award nominee, 1997[8]
Set in a world of steadily increasing longevity (gerontocracy), a newly rejuvenated American woman drifts through the marginalised subculture of young European artists while dealing with the implications of posthumanism.
Campbell Award nominee, 1999;[9] Hugo Award nominee, 1999;[9] Locus SF Award nominee, 1999;[9] Clarke Award winner, 2000[10]
A master political strategist and a genius genetic researcher find love as they fight an insane Louisiana governor for control of a high-tech scientific facility in a post-collapse United States. US editions: ISBN 0-553-10484-5 (hardcover), ISBN 0-553-57639-9 (paperback).
Locus SF Award nominee, 2001[11]
A girl group à la the Spice Girls tours the Middle East under the direction of trickster Leggy Starlitz. Explores a world in which postmodernism and deconstructionism were literally true in their postulation of reality.
A techno-thriller about a cyber-security expert who goes to work for the U.S. government fighting terrorism after 9/11.
Sibling clones, four female and one male, of the widow of a Balkan war criminal living on a space station, may be able to rescue the Earth from environmental collapse in 2060.[12]

Short stories[edit]

  • Black Swan, 40k, ebook edition, (English | Italian | Portuguese) (2010)
  • The Parthenopean Scalpel, 40k, ebook edition, (English | Italian | Portuguese) (2010)
  • My Pretty Alluvian Bride, in Brave New Now (edited Liam Young) ebook edition, (English) (2014)
  • "Balkan Cosmology" (English) (2022)

Short story collections[edit]

  • Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) – defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; ISBN 0-441-53382-5
  • Crystal Express (1989) – a collection of short stories, including several set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe; ISBN 0-87054-158-7
    • "Swarm"
    • "Spider Rose"
    • "Cicada Queen"
    • "Sunken Gardens"
    • "Twenty Evocations"
    • "Green Days in Brunei"
    • "Spook"
    • "The Beautiful and the Sublime"
    • "Telliamed"
    • "The Little Magic Shop"
    • "Flowers of Edo"
    • "Dinner in Audoghast"
  • Globalhead (1992, paperback 1994); ISBN 0-553-56281-9
    • "Our Neural Chernobyl"
    • "Storming the Cosmos"
    • "The Compassionate, the Digital"
    • "Jim and Irene"
    • "The Sword of Damocles"
    • "The Gulf Wars"
    • "The Shores of Bohemia"
    • "The Moral Bullet"
    • "The Unthinkable"
    • "We See Things Differently"
    • "Hollywood Kremlin"
    • "Are You for 86?"
    • "Dori Bangs"
  • Schismatrix Plus (1996) Complete Shapers-Mechanists Universe
    • "Schismatrix"
    • "Swarm"
    • "Spider rose"
    • "Cicada queen"
    • "Sunken gardens"
    • "Twenty evocations"
  • A Good Old-fashioned Future (1999); ISBN 1-85798-710-1
  • Visionary in Residence (2006); ISBN 1-56025-841-1
    • "In Paradise"
    • "Luciferase"
    • "Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct"
    • "Ivory Tower"
    • "Message Found in a Bottle"
    • "The Growthing"
    • "User-Centric"
    • "Code"
    • "The Scab's Progress"
    • "Junk DNA"
    • "The Necropolis of Thebes"
    • "The Blemmye's Stratagem"
    • "The Denial"
  • Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (2007); ISBN 978-1-59606-113-2
    • "Swarm"
    • "Spider Rose"
    • "Cicada Queen"
    • "Sunken Gardens"
    • "Twenty Evocations"
    • "Green Days in Brunei"
    • "Dinner in Audoghast"
    • "The Compassionate, the Digital"
    • "Flowers of Edo"
    • "The Little Magic Shop"
    • "Our Neural Chernobyl"
    • "We See Things Differently"
    • "Dori Bangs"
    • "Hollywood Kremlin"
    • "Are You For 86?"
    • "The Littlest Jackal"
    • "Deep Eddy"
    • "Bicycle Repairman"
    • "Taklamakan"
    • "The Sword of Damocles"
    • "Maneki Neko"
    • "In Paradise"
    • "The Blemmye's Strategem"
    • "Kiosk"
  • Gothic High-Tech (2012); ISBN 978-1-59606-404-1
    • "I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google"
    • "Kiosk"
    • "The Hypersurface of This Decade"
    • "White Fungus"
    • "The Exterminator's Want Ad"
    • "Esoteric City"
    • "The Parthenopean Scalpel"
    • "The Lustration"
    • "Windsor Executive Solutions" (with Chris Nakashima-Brown)
    • "A Plain Tale from Our Hills"
    • "The Interoperation"
    • "Black Swan"
  • Transreal Cyberpunk (2016) by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling; ISBN 978-1-940948-15-7
    • "Big Jelly"
    • "Storming the Cosmos"
    • "Junk DNA"
    • "Hormiga Canyon"
    • "Colliding Branes"
    • "Good Night, Moon"
    • "Loco"
    • "Totem Poles"
    • "Kraken and Sage"
  • Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (2021); ISBN 978-1-61696-329-3
    • "Kill the Moon"
    • "Black Swan"
    • "Elephant on Table"
    • "Pilgrims of the Round World"
    • "The Parthenopean Scalpel"
    • "Esoteric City"
    • "Robot in Roses"

Anthologies[edit]

  • Sterling, Bruce, ed. (2014). Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review 2014. MIT Press.

Non-fiction[edit]

Interviews[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 10, 2009.
  2. ^ "1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 10, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c "1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  4. ^ "1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  5. ^ "1991 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  6. ^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  7. ^ "1996 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  8. ^ a b "1997 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  9. ^ a b c "1999 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  10. ^ "2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  11. ^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  12. ^ Del Rey Online | The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling

External links[edit]

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