Bruce Sterling
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| Born | Michael Bruce Sterling April 14, 1954 Brownsville, Texas, U.S. |
| Pen name | Vincent Omniaveritas (in fanzine Cheap Truth) |
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| Education | University of Texas at Austin (BA) |
| Period | 1970s–present |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Subject | Cyberpunk |
| Literary movement | Cyberpunk/postcyberpunk |
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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.
He has been interviewed for documentaries such as Freedom Downtime, TechnoCalyps and Traceroute.