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Bruce Sterling is the author of ten novels, three of which were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. The Difference Engine, co-written with William Gibson, was a national bestseller. He has also published four short-story collections and four nonfiction books. He has written for many magazines, including Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Technology Review, and Wired, where he has been a contributing editor since its inception. He has won two Hugo Awards for his short fiction. Sterling lives in Austin, Texas.
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The Difference Engine
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
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Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
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The Caryatids
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time... Read more >
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Holy Fire
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1997
Price: $7.99
The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1997
Price: $7.99
The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments... Read more >
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Zeitgeist
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2001
Price: $6.99
It’s 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted — pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex.
His market is staring him in the face: millions of teenagers... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2001
Price: $6.99
It’s 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted — pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex.
His market is staring him in the face: millions of teenagers... Read more >
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Distraction
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $7.99
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A political spin... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $7.99
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A political spin... Read more >
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Tomorrow Now
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 23, 2003
Price: $14.95
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 23, 2003
Price: $14.95
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines... Read more >
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The Hacker Crackdown
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1993
Price: $7.50
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Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1993
Price: $7.50
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $9.95
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne’s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $9.95
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne’s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the... Read more >
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The Zenith Angle
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $7.99
Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.
Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $7.99
Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.
Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s... Read more >
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eBook.
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Heavy Weather
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1995
Price: $6.99
Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever. Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect. Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1995
Price: $6.99
Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever. Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect. Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force... Read more >
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $7.99
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers.
They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $7.99
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers.
They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have... Read more >
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $3.95
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne’s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $3.95
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne’s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the... Read more >
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The Caryatids
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Tomorrow Now
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines... Read more >
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Zeitgeist
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 1, 2001
Price: $14.96
Bruce Sterling is "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today" (Time), offering haunting visions of a future shaped by a madness of our own making. His latest novel is a startling tragicomic spectacle that takes a breathtaking look at a world where the future is being chased down... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 1, 2001
Price: $14.96
Bruce Sterling is "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today" (Time), offering haunting visions of a future shaped by a madness of our own making. His latest novel is a startling tragicomic spectacle that takes a breathtaking look at a world where the future is being chased down... Read more >
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paperback.
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The Zenith Angle
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $7.99
Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.
Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $7.99
Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.
Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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