Bruce Sterling Books in Order

After a drug derived from dustwhales is outlawed, addict John Newhouse joins a whaling ship on Nullaqua’s vast dust sea. The voyage exposes him to dangerous wildlife, a winged alien woman, and mysteries beneath the surface.

On Reverie, a professional combat artist entertains wealthy viewers living in orbit by broadcasting his violent exploits. When an enemy uncovers a secret from his past, the Artificial Kid faces a fight that threatens the planet itself.

Exiled Shaper diplomat Abelard Lindsay travels through a future divided between genetically engineered Shapers and technologically augmented Mechanists. Surviving political intrigues and shifting alliances, he seeks influence over the competing visions shaping the destiny of humanity.

Corporate public relations executive Laura Webster is drawn into international conflict after an assassination at a conference for offshore data havens. Her diplomatic mission exposes a world of information piracy, mercenary violence, and electronic warfare beneath apparent global prosperity.

Twelve stories explore technological change, including five set amid the rivalry between genetically altered Shapers and prosthetically enhanced Mechanists. Other tales move through future espionage, technological development in Brunei, and fantasy worlds beyond that shared setting.

Thirteen speculative stories explore a world of scientific celebrities, technological disruption and unlikely connections. Sterling moves between satire and stranger possibilities, following people whose ambitions and relationships collide with the forces transforming the world around them.

Sterling examines computer hacking and the response of law enforcement, telephone companies, and civil liberties advocates. This nonfiction account explores the tension between security and freedom as digital communities encounter legal authority on the emerging electronic frontier.

Edited by Gardner Dozois and Mike Resnick, this science fiction anthology imagines Africa’s future and African cultures transplanted to other worlds. Contributors include Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, and Kim Stanley Robinson, alongside Resnick’s story “Kirinyaga.”

In a future Texas reshaped by climate change, the Storm Troupers track increasingly violent tornadoes using computer networks and advanced forecasting. Their models predict an unprecedented F-6 storm, and the weather hackers prepare to confront its destructive force.

This volume combines Schismatrix with related stories from Sterling’s Shaper and Mechanist universe. The novel follows exiled diplomat Abelard Lindsay, while the shorter works expand the conflict between rival paths of genetic and technological human transformation.

These stories follow outsiders struggling to preserve individuality in societies shaped by technology and decline. Filmmakers, entrepreneurs, adventurers, and unlikely heroes confront commercial ambition, political violence, and the unsettling possibilities of humanity’s future.

Ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann undergoes an experimental treatment that restores her youth in a society dominated by life extension. Escaping medical supervision, she travels to Europe and enters a bohemian world of art, drugs, desire, and personal reinvention.

In a fractured America of 2044, political consultant Oscar Valparaiso turns from managing appearances to pursuing real change. Joining neurologist Greta Penninger, he confronts government dysfunction, technological intrigue, and enemies determined to stop their dangerous new ideas.

Lech “Leggy” Starlitz manages the female pop group G-7, pursuing success through calculated cultural manipulation. His plans begin to unravel when the musicians become political, and his schemes draw him toward a confrontation larger than the entertainment business.

Sterling considers the next fifty years through seven stages of human experience: birth, education, love, war, politics, business, and old age. His nonfiction forecasts connect technological developments with cultural change, ethical questions, and shifts in global power.

After the September 11 attacks, computer expert Derek Vandeveer joins a federal security team. Investigating a malfunctioning surveillance satellite, he moves from software troubleshooting into espionage, confronting an unknown enemy and the politics of Washington intelligence.

Thirteen stories explore futures shaped by unexpected technologies and unfamiliar ways of living. Moving across a range of imagined settings, Sterling examines how people adapt when invention unsettles their assumptions about society and the possibilities ahead.

This selection traces Sterling’s short fiction from early experiments to later futures, including his Shaper and Mechanist stories. Other sections follow Leggy Starlitz and Chattanooga, bringing together visions of technological change, political maneuvering and human adaptation.

Four estranged clones of a Balkan war criminal live across competing power blocs in an environmentally damaged world. Evidence of a coming catastrophe prompts an attempt to reunite them, despite their mutual hostility and sharply different loyalties.

Technology blogger Luca meets a fringe hacker who claims to have discovered something that could upset the world’s balance of power. As alternate realities and espionage emerge, Luca must decide whether exposing the truth is worth the danger.

Bombs, engineers, and romance intersect in this steampunk story featuring a woman with two heads. An intimate encounter challenges the narrator’s assumptions about identity, desire, and the changes people expect from those they love.

Twelve stories explore the uneasy meeting of advanced technology and a troubled modern world. Dark humor runs through encounters with digital culture, strange economies and unsettling social changes, as ordinary assumptions unravel under new technological pressures.

Italian witch Farfalla Corrado predicts the future through supernatural gifts, while Seattle venture capitalist Gavin Tremaine forecasts it through technology and business. Their romance brings those incompatible forms of foresight together, unsettling their expectations about love and history.

Sterling argues that connected devices serve the ambitions of competing technology giants more than the needs of consumers. This essay examines the language of smart homes and cities as part of a struggle for economic power and control.

In an alternate postwar Europe, the Regency of Carnaro’s Futurist rebels pursue revolution through piracy and technological ambition. Engineers, factory organizers, spies, and a warrior-poet seek foreign support as their tiny state challenges surrounding powers.

Writing through his Italian alter ego Bruno Argento, Sterling mixes technology with Italian art, history and myth. These stories include robotic artists, an alternate Italy and bizarre inventions, exploring futures that grow from distinctly Italian cultural roots.

Edited by Bruce Sterling, this anthology gathers cyberpunk short fiction exploring technologically advanced societies and people navigating their margins. The collection brings together visions of power, cultural change, and everyday life transformed by emerging technologies.