Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterlingis an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 April 1954
CountryUnited States of America
fun thinking grandparent
I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.
technology thinking years
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
thinking needs trends
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
people guy political
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
ignorance home privacy
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
dream technology twists
My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.
silly gambling las-vegas
Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.
clouds september-11 age
I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.
movie shoes actresses
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
military world politics
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
success jobs people
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
fall party innocent
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
kids mirrors cyberspace
The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.
design inquiry stories
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.