Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, critic, was born in 1954. He is the author of five science fiction novels: Involution Ocean (1977), The Artificial Kid (1980), Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988) and Heavy Weather (1994). His short stories appeared in the collection Crystal Express (1990) and Globalhead (1992) and in the Japanese collection Semi no Jo-o. He edited the collection Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement, and co-authored the novel The Difference Engine (1990) with William Gibson. He writes a critical column for Science Fiction Eye and a popular-science column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

His book 1992 book The Hacker Crackdown is non-fiction, describing the law enforcement and computer-crime activities that led to the start of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990.

He also appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBS's The Late Show, CBC's Morningside, on MTV, and in Newsday, Omni, Whole Earth Review, Drugs Society & Behaviour 1991, Mondo2000, WiReD and other equally improbable venues. He does public speaking as a hobby, and has addressed academics, market experts, experimental media groups, phone regulators, state bureaucrats, and architects among others. He lives in Austin, the Silicon Valley of Texas, with his wife and daugther. There he is an active board-member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - Austin which has a close relative in the south-east, the Electronic Frontiers Houston.

Bruce Sterling's Virtual City speech at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on March 2nd of the Rice Design Alliance lecture series The Virtual City is on-line, alive and kicking - read it!

Last update: December 4, 1994

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