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Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.〔(Bruce Sterling ) faculty page at European Graduate School〕 ==Writings== Sterling, along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Lewis Shiner, and Pat Cadigan, is one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. In addition, he is one of the subgenre's chief ideological promulgators. This has earned him the nickname "Chairman Bruce". He was also one of the first organizers of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop, and is a frequent attendee at the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop. He won Hugo Awards for his novelettes ''Bicycle Repairman'' and ''Taklamakan''. His first novel, ''Involution Ocean'', published in 1977, features the world Nullaqua where all the atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep crater. The story concerns a ship sailing on the ocean of dust at the bottom, which hunts creatures called dustwhales that live beneath the surface. It is partially a science-fictional pastiche of ''Moby-Dick'' by Herman Melville. From the late 1970s onwards, Sterling wrote a series of stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe: the solar system is colonised, with two major warring factions. The Mechanists use a great deal of computer-based mechanical technologies; the Shapers do genetic engineering on a massive scale. The situation is complicated by the eventual contact with alien civilizations; humanity eventually splits into many subspecies, with the implication that many of these effectively vanish from the galaxy, reminiscent of The Singularity in the works of Vernor Vinge. The Shaper/Mechanist stories can be found in the collection ''Crystal Express'' and the collection ''Schismatrix Plus'', which contains the original novel ''Schismatrix'' and all of the stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Alastair Reynolds identified ''Schismatrix'' and the other Shaper/Mechanist stories as one of the greatest influences on his own work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The World According to Bruce Sterling )〕 In the 1980s, Sterling edited the science fiction critical fanzine ''Cheap Truth'' under the alias of Vincent Omniaveritas. He wrote a column called ''Catscan'' for the now-defunct science fiction critical magazine ''SF Eye''. He recently contributed a chapter to ''Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture'' (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. He also contributed, along with Lewis Shiner, to the short story "Mozart in Mirrorshades". From April 2009 through May 2009, he was an editor at Cool Tools. Since October 2003 Sterling has blogged at ("Beyond the Beyond" ), which is hosted by ''Wired''. His most recent novel (as of 2013) is ''Love Is Strange'' (December 2012), a Paranormal Romance (40k). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Sterling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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