Bruce Sterling

"Sterling's first novel, Involution Ocean , appeared in 1977 when he was just twenty-three. A flawed but fascinating first novel, it created the dreadful planet of Nullaqua with considerable skill, surviving an introduction by Harlan Ellison designed to kill off a dozen lesser writers from bashfulness.

"It was clear from the outset that Sterling wanted to assimilate a whole range of literary influences into his work. In Involution Ocean he didn't quite succeed, but his second novel, The Artificial Kid (1980) proved he had learned an awful lot in the interim. This brash, punkish novel with its slick, fast-moving plot prefigures the later work in its concern with artificial environments, longevity and power politics." --Brian W.Aldiss (in Trillion Year Spree , 1986).

"I met Bruce at a science-fiction convention in Baltimore in 1983... Bruce started publishing a single-sheet newsletter called Cheap Truth , which sniped at SF bullshit and hyped the work of Bruce's friends." --Rudy Rucker (in Transreal! , 1991).

"He has appeared in ABC's Nightline , BBC's The Late Show , CBC's Morningside and on MTV, and in Newsday , Omni , Whole Earth Review , Drugs Society & Behavior 1991, Mondo 2000 and other publications. He also does public speaking as a hobby, and has addressed academics, market experts, experimental media groups, phone regulators and state bureaucrats, among others. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and daughter." [publisher's bumpf, 1985]

Writes a regular column, Catscan, for SF Eye .

His book on 'Operation Sun Devil', The Hacker Crackdown , is available online at the following sites:

Web site:
http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Hacker_Crackdown/

or at:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/hacker/

or:
gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11/Publications/authors/Sterling

Also check:

Bruce Sterling's presence on the WELL cyberpunk site:
gopher://nkosi.well.sf.ca.us:70/11/cyberpunk

And for a resource guide to Sterling's work and related items on the net:
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/RDA/VirtualCity/Sterling/index.html

And also 'Bruce Sterling (Info Bank)' at:
http://www.clark.net/pub/global/sterling.html

To reach Bruce Sterling himself:

e-mail:
bruces@well.sf.ca.us