Bruce Sterling bibliography
Introduction The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction.
Works ===Novels===* ''Involution Ocean'' (1977):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. * ''The Artificial Kid'' (1980):A novel about a young street fighter who continuously films himself using remote controlled cameras. * ''Schismatrix'' (1985):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. * ''Islands in the Net'' (1988):Campbell Award winner, 1989; Hugo Award nominee, 1989; Locus SF Award nominee, 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. * ''The Difference Engine'' (1990; with William Gibson):BSFA Award nominee, 1990; Nebula Award nominee, 1991; Campbell Award nominee, 1992:A steampunk alternate history novel set in a Victorian Great Britain in the throes of a steam-driven computer revolution. * ''Heavy Weather'' (1994):Follows high-tech storm chasers in the American midwest where greenhouse warming has made tornadoes far more energetic than the present day. * ''Holy Fire'' (1996):BSFA Award nominee, 1996; Hugo Award nominee, 1997; Locus SF Award nominee, 1997:Set in a world of steadily increasing longevity (gerontocracy), a newly rejuvenated American woman drifts through the marginalised subculture of young European artists while dealing with the implications of posthumanism. * ''Distraction'' (1998):Campbell Award nominee, 1999; Hugo Award nominee, 1999; Locus SF Award nominee, 1999; Clarke Award winner, 2000:A master political strategist and a genius genetic researcher find love as they fight an insane Louisiana governor for control of a high-tech scientific facility in a post-collapse United States. US editions:  (hardcover),  (paperback). * ''Zeitgeist'' (2000):Locus SF Award nominee, 2001: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. * ''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"* ''Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling'' (2007); ** "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); ** "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; ** "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); ** "Kill the Moon"** "Black Swan"** "Elephant on Table"** "Pilgrims of the Round World"** "The Parthenopean Scalpel"** "Esoteric City"** "Robot in Roses"=== Anthologies ===* ===Non-fiction===* ''The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier'' (1992) – about the panic of law enforcers in the late 1980s about 'hackers' and the raid on Steve Jackson Games as part of Operation Sun Devil. Spectra Books, . * ''Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the next fifty years'' (2002) – a popular science approach on futurology, reflecting technology, politics and culture of the next 50 years. Readers of Sterling will recognize many issues from books like ''Zeitgeist'', ''Distraction'' or ''Holy Fire''. * ''Shaping Things'' (2005) is a "book about created objects", i.e. a lengthy essay about design, things and how we will move from the age of products and gizmos to the age of spimes (a Sterling neologism). The 150-pages book covers issues like "intelligent things" (spiked with RFID-tags), sustainability and "fabbing". MIT Press, . *  The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things (2014)- Ebook examining the hype behind the Internet of Things and a world of connected objects.
Interviews *  ''Reason'' Magazine Interview with Bruce Sterling (archive)*  Interview pour le site Actusf.com (in French)*  Video Interview with Bruce Sterling, English language with German intro and subtitles
Critical studies and reviews of Sterling's work ;''Twelve Tomorrows'' (2014)*
References
External links *  The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier via Feedbooks.com ( HTML version).