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Bruce Sterling, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.

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Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a Welsh science fiction author.

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ArtCenter College of Design

ArtCenter College of Design is a private art university in Pasadena, California.

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Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.

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Atmosphere

An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.

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A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Bicycle Repairman

"Bicycle Repairman" is a postcyberpunk short story by American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.

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Brownsville, Texas

Brownsville is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Carbon nanotube

A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale).

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Cheap Truth

Cheap Truth was a free series of one-page, double-sided newsletters (i.e., fanzine) published in the period between 1983 and 1986.

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Civilization

A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Crystal Express

Crystal Express is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American author Bruce Sterling.

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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech".

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Cyberpunk derivatives

Since the advent of the cyberpunk genre, a number of cyberpunk derivatives have become recognized in their own right as distinct subgenres in speculative fiction, especially in science fiction.

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The Dead Media Project was initially proposed by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling in 1995 as a compilation of obsolete and forgotten communication technologies.

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Design fiction

Design fiction is a design practice aiming at exploring and criticising possible futures by creating speculative, and often provocative, scenarios narrated through designed artifacts.

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Deus Ex (video game)

Deus Ex is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive.

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DJ Spooky

Paul Dennis Miller (born September 6, 1970), known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics "illbient" or "trip hop". Bruce Sterling and DJ Spooky are Academic staff of European Graduate School.

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Dungeon Master

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game, the Dungeon Master (DM) is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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European Graduate School

The European Graduate School (EGS) is a private graduate school that operates in two locations: Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta.

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Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Florian-Ayala Fauna

Florian-Ayala Fauna is an American artist, musician, poet, and music producer.

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Freedom Downtime

Freedom Downtime is a 2001 documentary film sympathetic to the convicted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, directed by Emmanuel Goldstein and produced by 2600 Films.

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Fullerene

A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon whose molecules consist of carbon atoms connected by single and double bonds so as to form a closed or partially closed mesh, with fused rings of five to seven atoms.

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Futurist

Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.

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Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award

The is an annual poll conducted by Hayakawa's S-F Magazine for the best Japanese short story, illustrator, and foreign short story, voted by the readers from their issues in the previous year.

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Heavy Weather (Sterling novel)

Heavy Weather is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, first published in 1994, about a group of storm chasers in a world where global warming has produced incredibly destructive weather.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Bruce Sterling and Herman Melville are American male essayists.

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Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.

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Holy Fire (novel)

Holy Fire is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.

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Ideology

An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".

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Impact crater

An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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Involution Ocean

Involution Ocean is a science-fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling, published in 1977.

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Islands in the Net

Islands in the Net is a 1988 science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling.

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Jasmina Tešanović

Jasmina Tešanović (Јасмина Тешановић; born March 7, 1954) is an author, feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, and filmmaker.

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John Shirley

John Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, dark street fiction, westerns, and songwriting. Bruce Sterling and John Shirley are cyberpunk writers.

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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, was an annual award presented to the author of the best science fiction novel published in English in the preceding calendar year.

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Jon Lebkowsky

Jon Lebkowsky (born April 20, 1949) is an American web consultant/developer, author, and activist who was the co-founder of FringeWare Review (along with Paco Nathan). Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky are American male bloggers.

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Kevin Kelly (editor)

Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of ''Wired'' magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review. Bruce Sterling and Kevin Kelly (editor) are American futurologists and Wired (magazine) people.

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Lewis Shiner

Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950, in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer. Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner are cyberpunk writers.

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Mirrorshades

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) is a cyberpunk short story collection, edited by American writer Bruce Sterling.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California.

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Neologism

In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

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Pastiche

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

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Pat Cadigan

Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Bruce Sterling and Pat Cadigan are cyberpunk writers and Hugo Award-winning writers.

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Phenakistiscope

The phenakistiscope (also known by the spellings phénakisticope or phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion.

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Quipu

Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America.

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Radio-frequency identification

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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RE/Search Publications

RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded by its editor V. Vale in 1980.

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Rudy Rucker

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker are cyberpunk writers and Wired (magazine) people.

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Schismatrix

SchismatrixSchismatrix Plus, 1995, page viii.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Slipstream genre

The slipstream genre is a term denoting forms of speculative fiction that blends together science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction or do not remain in conventional boundaries of genre and narrative.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Space colonization

Space colonization is the use of outer space for colonization, such as permanent habitation, exploitation or territorial claims.

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Spime

Spime is a neologism for a futuristic object, characteristic to the Internet of Things, that can be tracked through space and time throughout its lifetime.

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Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.

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Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop

Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop is an annual workshop for science fiction writers.

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Taklamakan (short story)

"Taklamakan" is a short story by American writer Bruce Sterling.

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TechnoCalyps

TechnoCalyps is a 2006 Belgian transhumanism documentary film written and directed by Frank Theys.

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Technological singularity

The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.

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The Artificial Kid

The Artificial Kid is a science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling.

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The Caryatids

The Caryatids is a science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling, published in 2009.

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The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

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The Hacker Crackdown

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier is a work of nonfiction by Bruce Sterling first published in 1992.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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The Zenith Angle

The Zenith Angle is a science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling, first published in 2004, about a pioneering expert in computer and network security with a traditional hacker personality named Derek Vandeveer.

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Traceroute (film)

Traceroute is a 2016 Austrian-American documentary film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner.

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Turin

Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.

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Turkey City Writer's Workshop

Turkey City Writer's Workshop is a peer-to-peer, professional science fiction writer's workshop in Texas.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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V. Vale

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Vernor Vinge

Vernor Steffen Vinge (October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) was an American science fiction author and professor. Bruce Sterling and Vernor Vinge are American transhumanists and Hugo Award-winning writers.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Viridian design movement

The Viridian Design Movement was an aesthetic movement focused on concepts from bright green environmentalism.

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Warren Spector

Warren Evan Spector (born October 2, 1955) is an American role-playing and video game designer, director, writer, producer and production designer. Bruce Sterling and Warren Spector are Moody College of Communication alumni.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Bruce Sterling and William Gibson are 20th-century American essayists, 21st-century American essayists, American male bloggers, American male essayists, cyberpunk writers, Hugo Award-winning writers, science fiction critics and Wired (magazine) people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling

Also known as Chairman Bruce, Globalhead (book), Sterling, Bruce, Vincent Omniaveritas.

, Moby-Dick, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Neologism, Pasadena, California, Pastiche, Pat Cadigan, Phenakistiscope, Quipu, Radio-frequency identification, RE/Search Publications, Rudy Rucker, Schismatrix, Science fiction, Slipstream genre, Solar System, Space colonization, Spime, Sponsor (commercial), Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop, Taklamakan (short story), TechnoCalyps, Technological singularity, The Artificial Kid, The Caryatids, The Difference Engine, The Hacker Crackdown, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Zenith Angle, Traceroute (film), Turin, Turkey City Writer's Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, V. Vale, Vernor Vinge, Video game, Viridian design movement, Warren Spector, William Gibson, Wired (magazine), Worldbuilding, Worldchanging.

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See also

Cyberpunk writers

Neologists

References