East under the direction of trickster Leggy Starlitz. Explores a world in which postmodernism and deconstructionism were literally true in their postulation of reality. The Zenith Angle (2004) A techno-thriller about a cyber-security expert who goes to work for the U.S. government fighting terrorism after 9/11. The Caryatids (February 2009) 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. Love Is Strange (December 2012) Pirate Utopia (November 2016), novella, a dieselpunk alternative history set in the Italian Regency of Carnaro. 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) "Balkan Cosmology" (English) (2022) Short story collections Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) – defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; "The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson "Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan "Tales of Houdini" by Rudy Rucker "400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw "Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly "Petra" by Greg Bear "Till Human Voices Wake Us" by Lewis Shiner "Freezone" by John Shirley "Stone Lives" by Paul Di Filippo "Red Star, Winter Orbit" by Bruce Sterling, William Gibson "Mozart in Mirrorshades" by Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner Crystal Express (1989) – a collection of short stories, including several set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe; "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); "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); "Maneki Neko" "Big Jelly" (with Rudy Rucker) "The Littlest Jackal" "Sacred Cow" "Deep Eddy" "Bicycle Repairman" "Taklamakan" Visionary in Residence (2006); "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"