BRUCE STERLING was born in 1954 in Brownsville, Texas. They live in Austin, Texas. Cyberpunk was no exception and that early house organ was the two-page typewritten zine in the 1980s edited by Vincent Omniaveritas, aka Bruce Sterling. Science fiction author Lawrence Person, in defining postcyberpunk, summarized the characteristics of cyberpunk … – Bruce Sterling “Cyberpunk in the Nineties” “Cyberpunk is roadkill on the information superhighway of the 1990s. Sterling este, alături de William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Lewis Shiner și Pat Cadigan, unul dintre fondatorii mișcării cyberpunk în science fiction, ca și principalul factor de promovare al acestei ideologii. Bruce Sterling more or less declared it dead in 1985, and he was right; as a movement within SF it had done its job by then. His grandfather was a rancher, his father an engineer. John Shirley is another writer usually grouped with foundational cyberpunk authors like Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rucker, and Shiner. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. Bruce Sterling is an author, journalist, critic and a contributing editor of Wired magazine. Stream Bruce & Rudy Reading the Stories! Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. Works include: Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988), Heavy Weather (1994), and Holy Fire (1996). Vehemența lui în polemicile purtate asupra cyberpunk-ului i-a atras porecla de "Președintele Bruce". Although at this point the cyberpunk aesthetic had been well established, Mirrorshades was the first collection of cyberpunk works and was edited by one of the original cyberpunks, giving it additional credibility. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns and introductions to books by authors ranging from Ernst Jünger to Jules Verne. No more and no less. Leginkább sci-fi regényeiről és az általa összeállított Mirrorshades című antológiáról vált ismertté. The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker, Michael Swanwick, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Richard Kadrey, and others. Multiple-award-winning science fiction author, cyber-guru and technopundit, Bruce Sterling is one of the founders, and chief architects of the cyberpunk genre, with his novels and the genre’s defining anthology Mirrorshades edited by him being essential for an understanding of cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk OGs, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, reading their collection, Transreal Cyberpunk #cyberpunk Later on in this series, I’m going to be doing a piece on the various subgenres and deriviatives that spun off from cyberpunk: freewave, ribofunk, steampunk, splatterpunk, etc.