Tag: Bruce Sterling

• no absolute future: Bruce Sterling interviewed by Rachel Haywire

  I’ve found an interesting new internet presence.  Trigger Warning is a California LLC that was started in 2015 by Rachel Haywire of INSTED. It is a new media entity that houses a unique network of writers, artists, journalists, and cultural innovators; offering a provocative alternative to the liberal paradigm of our current media narrative. It…

  Bill Ectric

  May 22, 2016

  Bruce Sterling, cyberpunk, INSTED festival, Rachel Haywire, Science Fiction, The Hacker Crackdown, Trigger Warning, writing

• 30 Years of Future: Essential Cyberpunk

  Via iO9, Diana Biller writes: It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read. Read More

  Bill Ectric

  June 27, 2015

  Aleister Crowley, Alfred Bester, Altered Carbon, Bruce Sterling, cyberpunk, Darick Robertson, Diana Biller, io9, James Tiptree Jr, John Shirley, K. W. Jeter, Katsuhiro Otomo, Lewis Shiner, Masamune Shirow, Melissa Scott, Mirrorshades, Pat Cadigan, Philip K. Dick, Richard Kadrey, rudy rucker, Warren Ellis, William Gibson

• Slipstream: Feeling Very Strange

  Coming soon: More of my notes on Thomas Pynchon, Steve Aylett, and Charles Wadsworth Camp, but check this out! From Science Fiction Studies, a fantastic Special Issue on Slipstream, edited by Rob Latham, who begins by saying: In July 1989, in his “Catscan” column in the fanzine SF Eye, Bruce Sterling published an essay entitled “Slipstream.”…

  Bill Ectric

  March 3, 2011

  Bruce Sterling, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Interstitial Fiction, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Kathy Acker, literary criticism, metafiction, New Wave Fabulism, Nova Express, Rob Latham, science fiction studies, SF Eye, slipstream, The New Weird, writing, writing skills

• Time’s Arrow and the End of Certainty

  Ilya Prigogine book The End of Certainty and a postage stamp in his honor. I recently finished reading Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix Plus. This is a novel that starts out pretty good, gets better, coasts briefly, then gets better and better and then, unexpectedly,  oustandingly better still!  It peeks profoundly and ties up loose ends satisfyingly. Here’s a example of smart writing:  Descendants…

  Bill Ectric

  July 2, 2008

  Bruce Sterling, chaos theory, David Porush, Prigogine, Schismatrix, science fiction studies