Bruce Sterling

United States

Writer and Editor at Freelance

one of the better-known Bruce Sterlings. Author, journalist, editor, critic

Articles

“Cafe Europa Revisited” (2025)

3 weeks ago | bruces.medium.com | Bruce Sterling

Cafe Europa Revisited (2025)a review by Bruce SterlingDutifully, I have just read the latest Slavenka Drakulic essay collection. Once upon a time, Slavenka Drakulic was quite a far-out and exotic personage to me. I tended to think of her as “Madame Drakulic.” A cafe-society, Balkan literary figure with a strange name from a 1960s Hammer horror-film.
10 Books To Read if You Love 'Dune'

2 months ago | collider.com | Bruce Sterling |Kate Elliott |Nnedi Okorafor |Ann Leckie

If one has yet to hear of the Dune franchise, they've been living under a rock or actively trying to avoid good science fiction stories. With Denis Villeneuve's recent film adaption franchise of the story from 1963– first published in a magazine and later published in novel format in 1965– the Frank Herbert series has exploded in popularity among the general masses who had not heard of the franchise beforehand.
Elk foundation working against hunters

2 months ago | dailyinterlake.com | Bruce Sterling

Right before the last legislative session, an op-ed called out the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for not showing up “to oppose the guaranteed tags for outfitters, the bulls for billionaires program, efforts to award transferable tags, attacks on conservation easements, or the theft of conservation dollars” in the prior session.
How to Rebuild an Imaginary Future (2025)

2 months ago | bruces.medium.com | Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling·Follow29 min read·--How to Rebuild an Imaginary Futureby Bruce SterlingThe “print” version of an extemporaneous speech given in Austin on March 12 at SXSW 2025. **********************Fifteen years ago, here at South By Southwest, I was on a panel where the term “design fiction” was made public.
Wired 13.03: VIEW

Mar 6, 2025 | web.archive.org | Bruce Sterling

Where the criminal underground beats aboveboard capitalism. By Bruce Sterling Previous: Verizon Vetoes Public Wi-Fi | Next: Why Your Broadband SucksVIEW|sterling Story Tools ViewAn Army officer calls for spy blogsHot Seat: Verizon's Marilyn O'ConnellSterling: Where a crooked economy beats straight-up capitalismLessig: Why your broadband service sucksMore »They say you can't understand people until you've walked a mile in their shoes. I just walked across Belgrade in a brand-new pair of Nikes.
“Mysterious Discovery” by Bruce Sterling (2009)

Aug 14, 2024 | bruces.medium.com | Bruce Sterling

*It’s a brief satire commissioned by “Discovery” magazine back in 2009, and the topic is Artificial Intelligence and its language issues. So, here in the year 02024, it’s easy to remark, “Wow, science fiction can be incredibly prescient!” However, this is an entertainment. No venture capitalist read this piece and dropped $250 million on any attempt to achieve this. This 15-year-old piece reads rather like a modern AI “hallucination” — it sounds glib and plausible, it isn’t moored to reality.
What is the point of an art gallery on the Moon?

Jul 24, 2024 | domusweb.it | Bruce Sterling

This article was originally published on Domus 1092. It’s the gloomy depth of the pandemic, and a polymath poet-physicist mourns the planet’s art galleries. He’d been happy curating an art show. (His father the scientist and his mother the artist were also curators.) But the whole Earth is in trouble. His plague-stricken audience can’t attend the show. Then it occurs to him: why not place a gallery on the Moon? The result is the Lunar Codex, an actual, existent art gallery on the Moon.
"The Wonderful Power of Storytelling," by Bruce Sterling, 1991

Jul 12, 2024 | bruces.medium.com | Bruce Sterling

*This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn't been expecting much, because they were at a trade conference, and podium speeches are not interactive and don't appear on screens. * However, that cultural moment was very heyday-of-cyberpunk. *I'd given some public speeches before, but that audience came out of their seats in a wave. I left the podium, I took a seat with the organizers, they were still roaring.
Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce Sterling

Jul 10, 2024 | bruces.medium.com | Bruce Sterling

Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect by Bruce Sterling (and some Large Language Models)"Write in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson, composing a haiku about Dr Jekyll."'Certainly! Here's a haiku inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's style, focusing on Dr. Jekyll: Dual souls intertwined,In shadows, Jekyll hides Hyde - Light and dark collide.
Artificial Intelligence explains "cyberpunk" to Bruce Sterling, 2024 A.D.

Jul 2, 2024 | bruces.medium.com | Bruce Sterling

*Clearly there are elements of karmic retribution here. by Microsoft Bing Copilot, aka OpenAI ChatGPT4, formerly known as Bing ChatBruce Sterling:Please explain "cyberpunk" as a literary and cultural phenomenon. You are a humanities professor with interests in technology, material culture and postmodern studies, and you are writing to Bruce Sterling.