@booklet {9080, title = {Pirate Utopia}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Tachyon}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

Alternative history of the post-World War I period and the Italian Regency of Carnaro, a self-proclaimed city-state in Fiume led by Gabriele D\’Annunzio (1863-1938).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8242, title = {{\textquotedblleft}All the Childhood You Can Afford{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {23-45}, publisher = {MIT Technology Review}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

Neoliberal dystopia in which parents cannot have a child unless they leave it as a frozen embryo connected with stocks, and the child, when born, is dependent on the value of the stock.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Daniel Suarez (b. 1964)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8211, title = {"Boxes"}, howpublished = {Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {1-9}, publisher = {MIT Technology Review}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8217, title = {"Consolation"}, howpublished = {Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor\’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.

}, month = {2015}, pages = {99-117}, publisher = {MIT Technology Review}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8234, title = {"The New US"}, howpublished = {Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {64-74}, publisher = {MIT Technology Review}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

}, keywords = {Chicano author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-9910444-3-6}, author = {Pepe Rojo}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8151, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Countermeasures{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {35-55}, publisher = {Technology Review}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {9193, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Insistence of Vision{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Technology Review (MIT)}, year = {2013}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author\’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41.\ 

}, month = {July 2013}, pages = {15-21}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {6414, title = {"The Exterminator{\textquoteright}s Want-Ad"}, howpublished = {Shareable Futures}, year = {2010}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 19.5\&6 (692) (November/December 2010): 44-55; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 75-85.

}, month = {2010}, abstract = {

Socialist dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781596064041}, url = {http://shareable.net/blog/the-exterminators-want-ad. Posted June 22, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011.}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {6273, title = {The Caryatids}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An SF novel with fantasy elements set in an environmental dystopia. China is the only remaining nation state and has a drastically reduced population. The Acquis is a green enclave creating a networked utopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {11369, title = {"White Fungus"}, howpublished = {Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations}, volume = {no. 1}, year = {2009}, note = {

Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.

}, month = {April 2009}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community\’s needs.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781596064041}, url = {https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a }, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {11366, title = {"Kiosk"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = {112.1}, year = {2007}, note = {

Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 13-57.

}, month = {January 2007}, pages = {68-113}, abstract = {

Set in a not distant future in an Eastern European country that has experienced the dystopias of communism and capitalism and is going through a new transition based on what the story calls fabrication (three-dimensional printing). The protagonist is a man who has experienced the worst of the previous dystopias and runs a simple street kiosk catering to local people until he installs a fabricator.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781596064041}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {11365, title = {{\textquotedblleft}I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New Scientist}, volume = {19.2569 }, year = {2006}, note = {

Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 9-12.

}, month = {September 16, 2006}, pages = {52-53}, abstract = {

A brief story set in 2026 in a United States that has put strict restrictions on the activities and purchases of teenagers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781596064041}, issn = {0262-4079}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(06)60503-4}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {5693, title = {"Ivory Tower: A Place to call your own"}, howpublished = {Nature 434.7034}, year = {2005}, note = {

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in\ Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 274-77.

}, month = {April 7, 2005}, pages = {806}, abstract = {

Technological eutopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4935, title = {Distraction}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Political novel set in a future United States that is disintegrating as a result of various environmental and other problems.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4761, title = {"Bicycle Repairman"}, howpublished = {Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology}, year = {1996}, note = {

Rpt. in Asimov\’s Science Fiction 20.10\&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov\’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in hisA Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as\ A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor\’s note on 790.\ 

}, month = {1996}, pages = {22-56 with "Workshop Comments" on 57-59 and "Afterword to {\textquoteright}Bicycle Repairman{\textquoteright}" on 59.}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)}, editor = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) and Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner} } @booklet {4762, title = {Holy Fire}, year = {1996}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999.

}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex future world based on ability to extend life. Gerontocrats rule.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4582, title = {Heavy Weather}, year = {1994}, month = {1994}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

World depicted after ecological disaster. Various social systems develop to cope with the situation.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {11359, title = {Difference Engine}, year = {1990}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

}, month = {1990}, pages = {383 pp.}, publisher = {Victor Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780575047624}, author = {William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) and [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4099, title = {"We See Things Differently."}, howpublished = {Semiotext[e] SF}, year = {1989}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Year\&$\#$39;s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\&$\#$39;s Press, 1991), 130-46 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 129; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 762-79.

}, month = {1989}, pages = {27-43}, publisher = {Autonomedia}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. and dominant Islamic Middle East, which, in the name of jihad, is killing individuals who might assist U.S. recovery.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)}, editor = {Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) and Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)} } @booklet {3986, title = {Islands in the Net}, year = {1988}, note = {

Rpt. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994 with an unpaged \“Introduction\” by James E. Gunn, which was rpt. in his Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 73-76.\ . U.K. ed. London: Century, 1988.

}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Arbor House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A future high tech, networked eutopia that has access to data tightly controlled is being undermined by those trying to control people through the net. One woman manages to defeat them.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3684, title = {"Green Days in Brunei"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {9.10 (96) }, year = {1985}, note = {

Rpt. Rpt. in\ The Year\&$\#$39;s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 85-128 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 84; in his in\ Crystal Express\ (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 107-54; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 113-64; and in\ The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 276-340.

}, month = {October 1985}, pages = {136-81}, abstract = {

A dystopian future where Brunei has run out of oil.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3685, title = {Schismatrix}, year = {1985}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Ace 1986; and in\ Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix and Selected Stories from Crystal Express\ (New York: Ace, 1996), 1-236. Developed from a series of stories, including \"Swarm.\"\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 62.4 (April 1982): 4-24; rpt. in his\ Crystal Express\ (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 3-26; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 3-28;\ in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 472-95; and\ in Schismatrix Plus (239-57); \"Spider Rose.\"\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 63.2 (375) (August 1982): 4-19; rpt. in his\ Crystal Express\ (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 27-44; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 29-46; and in\ Schismatrix Plus\ (258-71); \"Cicada Queen.\"\ Universe 13. Ed. Terry Carr. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), 145-81; rpt. in his\ Crystal Express\ (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 45-79; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 47-84; and in\ Schismatrix Plus\ (272-300); \"Sunken Gardens.\" Omni 6.9 (June 1984): 58-, 62, 64, 67, 136, 138; rpt. in\ The Year\&$\#$39;s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 351-64 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 350; in his\ Crystal Express\ (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 80-96; rpt. in (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 85-101;and in\ Schismatrix Plus\ (301-12); and \"Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations.\"\ Interzone, no. 7 (Spring 1984): 24-26; rpt. as \"Twenty Evocations.\" In his\ Crystal Express\ (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 97-104; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 102-09; as \"20 Evocations.\"\ Mississippi Review, no. 47/48 (16.2/3) (1988): 122-29; and in\ Schismatrix Plus\ (313-19).

}, month = {1985}, publisher = {Arbor House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Cyberpunk that presents two groups of future posthumans, one of which, the Shapers, develop themselves with genetic engineering and the other, the Mechanists, who use cybernetic enhancements. These groups are regularly in conflict and the presentation is essentially dystopian.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3207, title = {The Artificial Kid}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1987; and San Francisco, CA: Hardwired, 1997 with a \“Foreword\” by William Gibson (1-6).\ 

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Cyberpunk eutopia and dystopia. The planet Reverie is initially presented as a somewhat odd plutocratic eutopia containing a violent Decriminalized Zone. The Artificial Kid is a combat artist.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} }