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The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk . It posits a Victorian-era Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in ...
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first science-fiction story, "Man-Made Self", was sold in 1976.
No Maps for These Territories is an independent documentary film made by Mark Neale focusing on the speculative fiction author William Gibson. [1] It features appearances by Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Bono, and The Edge and was released by Docurama. The film had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival in October 2000.
Readers of Sterling will recognize many issues from books like Zeitgeist, Distraction or Holy Fire. ISBN 0-679-46322-4 Shaping Things (2005) is a "book about created objects", i.e. a lengthy essay about design, things and how we will move from the age of products and gizmos to the age of spimes (a Sterling neologism ).
William Ford Gibson was born in the coastal city of Conway, South Carolina, and he spent most of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia, a small town in the Appalachians where his parents had been born and raised. [7] [8] His family moved frequently during Gibson's youth owing to his father's position as manager of a large construction company. [9]
Here’s some advice for leaders of a recall effort targeting Supervisor Bruce Gibson: Be careful what you wish for. Even if Gibson is tossed out of office, there is no guarantee that he will be ...
Prosecutors charged an Oklahoma City police officer with felony assault on Thursday after he slammed a 71-year-old man to the ground, breaking his neck, following an argument over a traffic ticket.
When Gibson returned to discuss the situation with Vu, the elderly man seemed to whack Gibson on the chest with the back of his hand. The officer twisted Vu’s arm behind his back roughly, the ...