Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling, born Michael Bruce Sterling on April 14, 1954, is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and for his editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology, and he is linked in particular to the cyberpunk subgenre. His first science fiction story, Man-Made Self, sold in 1976, and his novels include Schismatrix from 1985, Islands in the Net from 1988 and Heavy Weather from 1994. In 1992 he published his first nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. He has also been interviewed for documentaries including Freedom Downtime, TechnoCalyps and Traceroute.