Editing Bruce Sterling (section)

==Writing==
Sterling is one of the founders of the [[cyberpunk]] movement in science fiction, along with [[William Gibson]], [[Rudy Rucker]], [[John Shirley]], [[Lewis Shiner]], and [[Pat Cadigan]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swanwick |first1=Michael |title=A User's Guide to the Postmoderns |journal=Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine |date=August 1986 |volume=10 |issue=8}}</ref> In addition, he is one of the subgenre's chief [[Ideology|ideological]] promulgators. This has earned him the nickname "Chairman Bruce".<ref>{{cite web|author=Nisi Shawl |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008758249_br22sterling.html |title=Books {{pipe}} "The Caryatids": four clones need a home {{pipe}} Seattle Times Newspaper |publisher=Seattletimes.nwsource.com |date=2009-02-19 |access-date=2010-01-01}}</ref> He was also one of the first organizers of the [[Turkey City Writer's Workshop]], and is a frequent attendee at the [[Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop]]. He won [[Hugo Award]]s for his novelettes "[[Bicycle Repairman]]" (1996) and "[[Taklamakan (short story)|Taklamakan]]" (1998). His first novel, ''[[Involution Ocean]]'' (1977), features the world Nullaqua where all the [[atmosphere]] is contained in a single, miles-deep [[Impact crater|crater]]. The story concerns a ship sailing on the ocean of dust at the bottom and hunting creatures called dustwhales. It is partially a science-fictional [[pastiche]] of ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' by [[Herman Melville]].

In the early 1980s, Sterling wrote a series of stories set in the [[Shaper/Mechanist universe]]: the [[Solar System]] is [[Space colonization|colonized]], with two major warring factions. The Mechanists use a great deal of computer-based mechanical technologies; the Shapers do [[genetic engineering]] on a massive scale. The situation is complicated by the eventual contact with [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] [[civilization]]s; humanity eventually splits into many subspecies, with the implication that some of these vanish from the galaxy, reminiscent of the [[Technological singularity|singularity]] in the works of [[Vernor Vinge]]. The Shaper/Mechanist stories can be found in the collections ''[[Crystal Express]]'' and ''Schismatrix Plus'', which contains the novel ''Schismatrix'' and all of the stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe. [[Alastair Reynolds]] identified ''Schismatrix'' and the other Shaper/Mechanist stories as one of the greatest influences on his own work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.impactlab.net/2008/04/16/bruce-sterling-at-the-innovations-forum/ |title=The World According to Bruce Sterling |publisher=Impact Lab |access-date=4 September 2013 |archive-date=2 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102172100/http://www.impactlab.net/2008/04/16/bruce-sterling-at-the-innovations-forum/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Bruce Sterling at ARE 2010.jpg|thumb|Bruce Sterling at the 2010 [[Augmented Reality Event]]]]

In the 1980s, Sterling edited the science fiction critical fanzine ''[[Cheap Truth]]'' under the alias of Vincent Omniaveritas. He wrote a column called ''Catscan'' for the now-defunct science fiction critical magazine ''SF Eye''. He contributed a chapter to ''Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture'' (MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. [[DJ Spooky]]. From April 2009 through May 2009, he was an editor at ''[[Cool Tools]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003672.php |title=Cool Tools: New Editor, Same Deal |date=27 April 2009 |publisher=Kk.org |access-date=2010-01-01}}</ref>

From October 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2003/10/hello_world/ |title=HELLO WORLD {{pipe}} Beyond The Beyond |website=[[Wired (magazine)#Website|Wired.com]] |date=2003-10-30 |access-date=2010-01-01}}</ref> to May 2020 Sterling blogged at [http://blog.wired.com/sterling/ "Beyond the Beyond"], which was hosted by ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' until the COVID-19 pandemic led [[Condé Nast]] to cut back because of an advertising slump. He also contributed to other print and online platforms, including ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020 |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53295430-the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-may-june-2020 |website=goodreads |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>

===Writing projects===
He has been the instigator of three projects which can be found on the Web:

* The [[Dead Media Project]]: A collection of "research notes" on dead media technologies, from [[Inca]]n [[quipu]]s, through Victorian [[phenakistoscope]]s, to the departed [[video game]] and home computers of the 1980s. The Project's homepage, including Sterling's original ''Dead Media Manifesto'' can be found at deadmedia.org.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dead Media Project |url=http://www.deadmedia.org/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.deadmedia.org}}</ref>
* The [[Viridian design movement|Viridian Design Movement]]: His attempt to create a "green" design movement focused on high-tech, stylish, and ecologically sound design.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bigpicture.tv/index.php?id=83&cat=&a=224 |title=Big Picture Business |publisher=Bigpicture.tv |access-date=2012-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314025831/http://www.bigpicture.tv/index.php?a=224&cat=&id=83 |archive-date=2016-03-14 }}</ref> The Viridian Design home page, including Sterling's ''Viridian Manifesto'' and all of his ''Viridian Notes'', is managed by [[Jon Lebkowsky]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Viridian Design Movement |url=http://www.viridiandesign.org/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.viridiandesign.org}}</ref> The Viridian Movement helped to spawn a popular "bright green" environmental weblog [[Worldchanging]]. WorldChanging contributors include many of the original members of the Viridian "curia".
* Embrace the Decay: A web-only art piece commissioned by the Los Angeles [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|Museum of Contemporary Art]] (MOCA) in 2003.<ref>[http://www.moca.org/museum/dg_detail.php?&dgDetail=bsterling "DIGITAL GALLERY: Bruce Sterling: Embrace the Decay"], ''moca.org''</ref> Incorporating contributions solicited through The Viridian Design 'movement', Embrace the Decay was the most visited piece/page at LA MOCA's Digital Gallery, and included contributions from Jared Tarbell of [http://www.levitated.net/ levitated.net] and co-author of several books on advanced [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] programming, and Monty Zukowski, creator of the winning 'decay algorithm' sponsored by Sterling.

===Neologisms===
Sterling has coined various [[neologism]]s to describe things that he believes will be common in the future, especially items which already exist in limited numbers.
* In the December 2005 issue of ''Wired'' magazine, Sterling coined the term buckyjunk to refer to future, difficult-to-recycle consumer waste made of [[Carbon nanotube|carbon nanotubes]], a.k.a. buckytubes, based on buckyballs or [[fullerene|buckminsterfullerene]].
* In his 2005 book ''Shaping Things'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/shaping-things|title=Shaping Things|series=Mediaworks Pamphlets|date=7 October 2005|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262195331|access-date=2016-09-30}}</ref> he coined the term [[design fiction]] which refers to a type of speculative design which focuses on [[worldbuilding]].
* In July 1989, in ''SF Eye #5'', he was the first to use the word "[[slipstream genre|slipstream]]" to refer to a type of speculative fiction between traditional science fiction and fantasy and mainstream literature.
* In August 2004, he suggested a type of technological device (he called it "[[spime]]") that, through pervasive [[Radio-frequency identification|RFID]] and [[Global Positioning System|GPS]] tracking, can track its history of use and interact with the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/401-450/00422_the_spime.html |title=Viridian Note |publisher=Viridiandesign.org |access-date=2010-01-01}}</ref>