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Books by Bruce Sterling






Schismatrix Plus(Reprint)
(Complete Shapers-Mechanists Universe)
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 319 Pages, Published 1996 by Ace
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-00370-9, ISBN: 0-441-00370-2

"Bruce Sterling has called his Shaper/Mechanist novel Schismatrix "my favorite among my books." It is a detailed history of a spacefaring humanity divided into two camps: The Shapers, who prefer genetic enhancements, and the Mechanists, who rely on prosthetics. Sterling also published five Shaper/Mechanist stories between 1982-84, which have been collected with the novel in this compendium volume. This book represents the definitiv ..."






Transreal Cyberpunk
by Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 2015 by Transreal Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-940948-14-0, ISBN: 1-940948-14-2

"Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham. This is the same January ..."






The Zenith Angle(Reprint)
A Novel
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-46865-9, ISBN: 0-345-46865-1

"Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s how nations and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And ..."






Visionary in Residence
Stories
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Running Press Adult
ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-841-4, ISBN: 1-56025-841-1

""I'm a science fiction writer. This is a golden opportunity to get up to most any mischief imaginable. With this fourth collection of my stories, I'm going to prove this to you." With these words, Bruce Sterling—author of New York times Notable Books of the Year and one of the great names in contemporary fiction—introduces his latest collection of thirteen tales. If you're familiar with his cyberpunk creations you won't be disappointed, ..."






The Glass Bees
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Ernst Junger, Bruce Sterling, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-55-4, ISBN: 0-940322-55-2

"In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Juenger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology, and strategic command of the information and entertainment industries, into a discrete, and seemingly benign, form of global domination. But Zapparoni is worried that the scientists he depends on might take his secrets to a rival. He needs a c ..."






Tomorrow Now(Reprint)
Envisioning the Next 50 Years
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-6976-4, ISBN: 0-8129-6976-6

"“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human histor ..."






Islands in the Net(1st Edition)
by Bruce Sterling, Cover Art
Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 1989 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-37423-6, ISBN: 0-441-37423-9

"Slightly dated science fiction about the near future can be fun, especially when it evokes a strange, chaotic, and dangerous world that's uncomfortably close to our present one. Bruce Sterling's 1988 book, Islands in the Net, is a thrilling blend of high tech and low humanity. The glue that binds together this world of data pirates, mercenaries, nanotechnology, weaponry, and post-millennial voodoo is the global electronic net. You'll ..."






The Zenith Angle(1st Edition)
by Bruce Sterling
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-46061-5, ISBN: 0-345-46061-8

"Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s how nations and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And ..."






Distraction(Updated)
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2000 by Orion
ISBN-13: 978-1-85798-928-1, ISBN: 1-85798-928-7

"Politics is the art of the possible, the "doable", as Sterling's skewed hero, Oscar Valparaiso, keeps calling his wild improvised plans as if saying the word made them so. Oscar's usually successful schemes are as cobbled together as his own genetics--Oscar is not quite human. Investigating a genetic research facility for a Senate committee, he finds a potential power base, and an enemy worth his attention--the Governor of Louisiana has ..."






Holy Fire
(Bantam Spectra Book)
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1997 by Spectra
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-57549-1, ISBN: 0-553-57549-X

"The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to the latest advancements in life-extension technology. Meanwhil ..."






The Artificial Kid(Updated)
(Roc S.)
by Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Roc
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-017863-0, ISBN: 0-14-017863-5






The Hacker Crackdown(1st Edition)
by Bruce Sterling
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 1992 by Bantam
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-08058-2, ISBN: 0-553-08058-X

"Bruce Sterling's classic work highlights the 1990 assault on hackers, when law-enforcement officials successfully arrested scores of suspected illicit hackers and other computer-based law-breakers. These raids became symbolic of the debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting civil liberties. However, The Hacker Crackdown is about far more than a series of police sting operations. It's a lively tour of three cyberspace ..."






The Difference Engine(1st Edition)
by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Hardcover, 429 Pages, Published 1991 by Bantam Spectra
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-07028-6, ISBN: 0-553-07028-2

"1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard―fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory―explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant―diplomat, mysti ..."






Saucer Wisdom(Reprint)
by Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Night Shade
ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-965-8, ISBN: 1-59780-965-9

"Author Rudy Rucker offers a one-of-a-kind “history” of the future in this staggeringly inventive metafictional novel involving UFOs and time travel. Frank Shook, who lives in the hills of California outside Silicon Valley, is a UFO abductee, communicating with extraterrestrial beings who take him on wild flying saucer rides, zig-zagging through time to give Frank vivid looks into the future of humanity. Frank’s bizarre claims are intri ..."






OVEREXPOSED
[Soft Cover ]
by Paolo Cirio, Bruce Sterling, Nato Thompson
Paperback, 58 Pages, Published 2019 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-0-359-46048-9, ISBN: 0-359-46048-8

"Paolo Cirio has invented a new and more technically advanced form of street art. This is typical of him. Paolo Cirio gives much focused time and attention to forms of cultural expression that most people overlook. Sometimes, by contrast, Paolo ..."






Transreal Cyberpunk
by Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, Rob Latham
Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2016 by Transreal Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-940948-15-7, ISBN: 1-940948-15-0

"Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham."






The Difference Engine
(S.F. Masterworks)
by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Paperback, 383 Pages, Published 2011 by Gollancz
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09940-1, ISBN: 0-575-09940-2

"A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time."






Eclipse One
New Science Fiction And Fantasy (v. 1)
by Jonathan Strahan, Bruce Sterling, Garth Nix, Jeffery Ford, Lucius Shepard, Ellen Klages, Peter S. Beagle, Jeffrey Ford, Night Shade Books, Maureen Mchugh
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Night Shade Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-117-1, ISBN: 1-59780-117-8

"An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan. Set to become a major event on the science fi ..."






Tomorrow Now(1st Edition)
Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
by Bruce Sterling
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-46322-1, ISBN: 0-679-46322-4

"“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human histor ..."






Holy Fire(1st Edition)
by Bruce Sterling
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 1996 by Orion
Import
ISBN-13: 978-1-85798-462-0, ISBN: 1-85798-462-5

"In an era when life expectancies stretch 100 years or more and adhering to healthy habits is the only way to earn better medical treatments, ancient "post humans" dominate society with their ubiquitous wealth and power. By embracing the safe and secure, 94-year-old Mia Ziemann has lived a long and quiet life. Too quiet, as she comes to realize, for Mia has lost the creative drive and ability to love--the holy fire--of the young. But w ..."



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