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Bruce Sterling was born in
1954 in Brownsville, Texas. His grandfather was a rancher, his father
an engineer. Sterling, purportedly a novelist by trade, actually spends
most of his time aimlessly messing with computers, modems, and fax machines.
He and his wife Nancy have a daughter Amy, born in 1987. They live in
Austin, Texas. |
| Sterling sold his first science fiction story in 1976.
His solonovels include Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988),
Heavy Weather (1994), and Holy Fire (1996). In 1986 he edited Mirrorshades:
The Cyberpunk Anthology. His two collections of short stories are Crystal
Express (1989) and Globalhead (1992). In 1990 he and William Gibson published
their collaborative 'steampunk' novel The Difference Engine. 1992 saw
the appearance of Sterling's first nonfiction book, The
Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic
Frontier, a work of investigative journalism exploring issues in computer
crime and civil liberties. Sterling released the entire text of the book
on the Internet as non-commercial "literary freeware," and maintains a
long-term interest in electronic user rights and free expression. Other
nonfiction work by Sterling has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday,
Whole Earth Review, Details, Mondo 2000, bOING bOING, and Wired. He has
also written SF
criticism for Science Fiction Eye and Monad, and regular columns for
Interzone
and The Magazine
of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
He has been a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
ever since Salman Rushdie was condemned by religious fanatics. His latest
novel is entitled Distraction. |