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Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.

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Bibliography

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction.

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Works

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Novels

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; British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, 1986
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;
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;
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;
Campbell Award nominee, 1999;
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.
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Short stories

  • 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)
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Short story collections

  • Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) – defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; Template:ISBN
  • Crystal Express (1989) – a collection of short stories, including several set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe; Template:ISBN
    • "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); Template:ISBN
    • "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); Template:ISBN
  • Visionary in Residence (2006); Template:ISBN
    • "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"
  • Ascendencies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (2007); Template:ISBN
    • "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); Template:ISBN
    • "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; Template:ISBN
    • "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); Template:ISBN
    • "Kill the Moon"
    • "Black Swan"
    • "Elephant on Table"
    • "Pilgrims of the Round World"
    • "The Parthenopean Scalpel"
    • "Esoteric City"
    • "Robot in Roses"
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Anthologies

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Non-fiction


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