Year's Best SF 8
Chapter One
In Paradise
Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling (/conf/mirrorshades) lives
in Austin, Texas. The novel Schismatrix (1985) and the related
stories that made him famous were re-released in 1996 as
Schismatrix Plus. He collaborated with William Gibson on The
Difference Engine (1990), became a media figure who appeared
on the cover of Wired, became a journalist who wrote the
expose The Hacker Crackdown (1992), and returned his attention
to science fiction in 1995, with a new explosion of stories
and novels, including Heavy Weather (1994), Holy Fire (1996),
and Distraction (1998). His most recent novel, Zeitgeist
(2000), is fantasy. His interest in the political and cultural
implications of future change has informed his work, and in
his recent nonfiction book, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next
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