Bruce Bethke

Bruce Bethke, born in 1955, is an American author of science fiction best known for the short story "Cyberpunk", which he wrote in 1983 and whose title led to the widespread use of the word cyberpunk for a subgenre of science fiction. His novel Headcrash, a comic story of a young software worker named Jack Burroughs who leads a far livelier life as a hacker in a virtual metaverse, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for the best original paperback published in the United States. He also wrote Maverick, a novel in the Robot universe of Isaac Asimov, built from an outline Asimov left in 1990, and novelizations including Rebel Moon and Wild Wild West. Bethke served as a judge for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2013 and, from 2012, has edited the monthly anthology series Stupefying Stories. He lives in Minnesota, where he has worked as a developer of supercomputer software.