Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling
Born	Michael Bruce Sterling (1954-04-14) April 14, 1954 (age 70) Brownsville, Texas, U.S.
Pen name	Vincent Omniaveritas (in fanzine Cheap Truth)
Occupation	Writer speaker futurist design instructor
Nationality	American
Education	University of Texas at Austin (BA)
Period	1970s–present
Genre	Science fiction
Subject	Cyberpunk
Literary movement	Cyberpunk/postcyberpunk
Spouse	Jasmina Tešanović ​ (m. 2005)​
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Website
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Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.

Sterling's first science-fiction story, "Man-Made Self", was sold in 1976. He is the author of science-fiction novels, including Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988), and Heavy Weather (1994). In 1992, he published his first non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.^[1]

He has been interviewed for documentaries such as Freedom Downtime, TechnoCalyps and Traceroute.