Fabricating the Future

Bruce Sterling is best known for his eight science fiction novels, though he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. His nonfiction works include.

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992) and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years (2003).

Bruce is a long-time contributing editor of Wired magazine. In addition, he writes a weblog, and runs a website and Internet mailing list on the topic of environmental activism and postindustrial design.

He has appeared in ABC’s Nightline, BBC’s The Late Show, CBC’s Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, and many other venues.

Bruce recently finished a short tenure as a “visionary in residence” at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His most recent book, Visionary in Residence, was released in the spring of 2006. He is married to Serbian author and filmmaker Jasmina Tesanovic, and lives in Belgrade.

blog.wired.com/sterling