The biography of Bruce the writer

Six months later, his family moved to Austin, where Sterling's father received an engineer diploma, and then to Galveston, where the childhood of the future writer passed. Bruce began to compose at twelve years, and when he turned fifteen, he, together with his parents, moved for a while to India, where his father took part in the construction of the plant. Two and a half years later, Bruce Sterling, together with his parents, returned to Austin and entered the University of Texas, where, together with such writers as Howard Walrop, Steve ATLI, Jake Saunders, Tom Rimi, John Shirley, and Lewis Shainer entered the group called the Famulis in the Law of Outlaw Fantasists and began more active Practive in writing.

In the year, Sterling received a diploma in journalism and sells his first science fiction story-[man-Made Self]. Young talent did not go unnoticed and only a year later the first novel of the writer, Ocean Involution [Involution Ocean], was released in the book series, which was Harlan Ellison himself. Three years later, the second novel followed - The Artifical Kid, and then - long five years, during which Sterling combines journalistic work with writing stories from a series about two opposing groups of the future - shape and mechanics.

Around the same time, being the personality of active and charismatic Bruce, Sterling organized and rallied around himself the movement of writers, who later became known as the "cyberpan". Under the pseudonym Sterling began the release of software fenzin Cyberpankov called [Cheap Truth], where stagnation was caustically ridiculed in the American NF. Fenzine was sent for free to everyone, according to Bruce, he was not indifferent.

In the year, I saw the light of the “Schizatrix” [Schismatrix] - a novel crowning the cycle of shape and mechanics and became a classic work of the Cyberpank genre, despite the fact that, unlike his colleague and his friend, William Gibson, Bruce sterling did not accent on technology research, but on sociological forecasts. In the year, Sterling compiled and edited the Cyberpankovsky collection called [Mirrorshades], which collected the stories of all, in his opinion, significant cyberpanks.

This collection became without exaggeration the most important milestone, as officially approved by the chief ideologist of Cyberpan, the chairman of Bruce. Campbell Memorial Award and, in collaboration with William Gibson, the Steampankovsky "differential count" [The Difference Engine], immediately recognized as one of the most successful works of the genre.

In the year, the writer published his first nephthastic book - [Hacker Crackdown] in which, in his own words, “about computer crimes, electronic networks, cops, hackers and civil freedoms” was told, and in his usual he did this in a rather atypical form, officially allowing the free distribution of the book in electronic form, which brought publishers to a state of light panic. To their great joy, Bruce Sterling's writer's fervor is somewhat reduced or, rather, reduced to the channel of journalism and public speeches, it should be noted that Sterling calls the pronunciation of all kinds of seduces to his favorite hobby.

Passion for journalism and attention to the most urgent problems of society does not pass without a trace - in the year the writer releases the next science fiction novel - "bad weather" [Haevy Weather], dedicated to global warming. Having organized a group of like -minded people, it creates the project “The Dead Media Project”, where, according to the creators, all the “deceased” media of the past, present and future should be entered.

There is another novel - “Holy Fire” [Holy Fire] about what completely unexpected dangers are fraught with the worship of society with a healthy lifestyle. In the year, the next novel of the writer - “Distration”, dedicated to politics and bioenginery brings him Arthur C. Clarke Award, and in a dull to the change of millennia, the spirit of the time [Zeitgeist] continues the cycle of stories about one of the most beloved and successful characters of the writer - the Legee Starlice.

Sterling himself characterizes his work as "postmodern fantasy." The latest writer's last work today is another journalistic book - [Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next 50 Years]. Currently, Bruce Sterling lives in Austin Texas with his wife and two daughters.