Bruce Sterling is an American author and one of the founders of the cyberpunk science fiction movement. He began writing in the 1970s; his first novel,ย Involution Ocean, about a whaling ship in an ocean of dust, is a science fictional pastiche of Herman Melvilleโsย Moby-Dick.ย His other works, including his series of stories and a novel,ย Schismatrix, set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe, often deal with computer-based technologies and genetic engineering. His five short story collections and ten novels have earned several honors: a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards, a Hayakawaโs SF Magazine Readerโs Award, and an Arthur C. Clarke Award. Sterling has also worked as a critic and journalist, writing forย Metropolis,ย Artforum,ย Icon,ย MIT Technology Review,ย Time, andย Newsweek, as well asย Interzone,ย Science Fiction Eye,ย Cheap Truth,ย andย Cool Tools. He editsย Beyond the Beyond, a blog hosted byย Wired.ย
Sterling is also involved in the technology and design community. In 2003 his web-only art piece,ย Embrace the Decay, was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and became the most-visited piece in the museumโs digital gallery. He has taught classes in design at the Gerrit Reitveld Academie in Amsterdam, Centro in Mexico City, Fabrica in Treviso, Italy, and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Sterling lives in Austin, Texas; Belgrade, Serbia; and Turin, Italy.ย