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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.
The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in "Burning Chrome" (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer.
Through Shirley, Gibson came into contact with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner; reading Gibson's work, they realized that it was, as Sterling put it, "breakthrough material" and that they needed to "put down our preconceptions and pick up on this guy from Vancouver; this [was] the way forward."
The character "Michael Godwin" in the 1990 book The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson was named after Godwin as thanks for his technical assistance in linking their computers to allow them to collaborate between Austin and Vancouver. [12]
Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) – defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; ISBN 0-441-53382-5 "The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson "Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan "Tales of Houdini" by Rudy Rucker "400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw "Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly "Petra" by Greg Bear
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 ...
"Red Star, Winter Orbit" is a short story written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in the 1980s. [1] It was first published in Omni in July 1983, and later collected in Burning Chrome, a 1986 anthology of Gibson's early short fiction, and in Sterling's 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades.