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The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Works

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;[1] British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, 1986[2]
The twenty third 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;[3] Hugo Award nominee, 1989;[3] Locus SF Award nominee, 1989[3]
A view of an early twenty first century world apparently peaceful 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;[4] Nebula Award nominee, 1991;[5] Campbell Award nominee, 1992[6]
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;[7] Hugo Award nominee, 1997;[8] Locus SF Award nominee, 1997[8]
Set in a world of steadily increasing longevity (gerontocracy), a newly rejuvenated American woman drifts through the marginalised subculture of European young artists while dealing with the implications of posthumanism.
Campbell Award nominee, 1999;[9] Hugo Award nominee, 1999;[9] Locus SF Award nominee, 1999;[9] Clarke Award winner, 2000[10]
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: ISBN 0-553-10484-5 (hardcover), ISBN 0-553-57639-9 (paperback).
Locus SF Award nominee, 2001[11]
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 as a malleable major consensus narrative.
A techno-thriller about a cyber-security expert who goes to work for the U.S. government fighting terrorism after 9/11.
Three women, clones 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.[12]
  • Love Is Strange (December 2012)
  • Pirate Utopia, novella, (November 2016)

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)

Short story collections

  • Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) - defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; ISBN 0-441-53382-5
  • Crystal Express (1989) - a collection of short stories, including several set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe; ISBN 0-87054-158-7
    • "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); ISBN 0-553-56281-9
    • "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); ISBN 1-85798-710-1
  • Visionary in Residence (2006); ISBN 1-56025-841-1
    • "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); ISBN 978-1-59606-113-2
    • "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); ISBN 978-1-59606-404-1
    • "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"

Non-fiction

Interviews

References

  1. ^ "1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  2. ^ "1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  3. ^ a b c "1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  4. ^ "1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  5. ^ "1991 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  6. ^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  7. ^ "1996 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  8. ^ a b "1997 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  9. ^ a b c "1999 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  10. ^ "2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  11. ^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  12. ^ Del Rey Online | The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling