Reading Order
9 series · 135 booksMechanist Shapers Series
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schismatrix | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Crystal Express | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Schismatrix Plus | 1995 | Buy from Amazon |
Bruce Sterling Other Novels
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Artificial Kid | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Islands in the Net | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Difference Engine ( With: William Gibson) | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Heavy Weather | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Holy Fire | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Distraction | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Zeitgeist | 2000 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Zenith Angle | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Caryatids | 2009 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Love is Strange | 2012 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Pirate Utopia | 2015 | Buy from Amazon |
Bruce Sterling Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinner in Audoghast (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Flowers of Edo (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Our Neural Chernobyl (in F&SF) (Short Story) | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Dori Bangs (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Deep Eddy (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1993 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Bicycle Repairman (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future) (Short Story) | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Maneki Neko (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future) (Short Story) | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Taklamakan (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future) (Short Story) | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Parthenopean Scalpel (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Black Swan (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Good Night, Moon (Short Story) ( With: Rudy Rucker) | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Loco (Short Story) ( With: Rudy Rucker) | 2012 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Totem Poles (Short Story) ( With: Rudy Rucker) | 2016 | Buy from Amazon |
Bruce Sterling Collections Multi-Author
This is a multi-author anthology series. Bruce Sterling contributed 6 titles to this series:
- Globalhead (1992) Buy
- A Good Old-Fashioned Future (1999) Buy
- Visionary in Residence (2005) Buy
- Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (2007) Buy
- Gothic High-Tech (2011) Buy
- Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories ( With: John Coulthart, Dario Tonani, Bruno Argento) (2021) Buy
The Harlan Ellison Discovery Series
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autumn Angels ( By: Arthur Byron Cover) | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Light at the End of the Universe ( By: Terry Carr) | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Involution Ocean | 1977 | Buy from Amazon |
Bruce Sterling Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things | 2014 | Buy from Amazon |
Universe Series
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universe 1 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Universe 2 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Universe 3 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Universe 4 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Universe 5 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Universe 6 ( By: John Shirley, Terry Carr) | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Universe 7 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Universe 8 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1978 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Universe 9 ( By: John Shirley, Terry Carr) | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Universe 10 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Universe 11 ( By: Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, Carter Scholz, Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Nancy Kress, Carol Emshwiller, Josephine Saxton, Terry Carr) | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Universe 12 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Universe 13 ( With: Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Terry Carr, Leanne Frahm, Bill Bickel) | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | Universe 14 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Universe 15 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Universe 16 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Universe 17 ( By: Terry Carr) | 1987 | Buy from Amazon |
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 | 1973 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 | 1978 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 | 1979 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 | 1987 | Buy from Amazon |
Bruce Sterling Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lone Star Universe | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Universe 13 | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Nebula Awards 18 | 1983 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Mirrorshades | 1986 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987 | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Third Annual Collection | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989 | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Drabble II: Double Century | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Semiotext SF | 1991 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Storming the Reality Studio | 1991 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1992 | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection | 1993 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | Under African Skies | 1993 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | The Ascent of Wonder | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | Cthulhu 2000 | 1995 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | Paragons | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | Hackers | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | The Science Fiction Century | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | Modern Classics of Fantasy | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | Year's Best SF 2 | 1997 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 29 | Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011 | 1998 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 30 | The Good New Stuff | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 31 | Year's Best SF 4 | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 32 | The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 33 | Genometry | 2001 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 34 | The Ultimate Cyberpunk | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 35 | Supermen | 2002 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 36 | Year's Best SF 8 | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 37 | The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 38 | The Year\'s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 39 | Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 40 | The Hard SF Renaissance | 2003 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 41 | Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse | 2005 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 42 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels | 2005 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 43 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | 2006 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 44 | Year's Best SF 11 | 2006 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 45 | Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection | 2006 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 46 | Rewired | 2007 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 47 | Year's Best SF 13 | 2008 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 48 | The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 | 2008 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 49 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 50 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | 2010 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 51 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 52 | Happily Ever After | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 53 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 54 | Lightspeed: Year One | 2011 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 55 | Steampunk III | 2012 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 56 | Digital Rapture | 2012 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 57 | Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013 | 2013 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 58 | After the End | 2013 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 59 | Twelve Tomorrows 2014 | 2014 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 60 | Hieroglyph | 2014 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 61 | Transreal Cyberpunk | 2015 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 62 | Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017 | 2017 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 63 | 2001: An Odyssey in Words | 2018 | Buy from Amazon |
Bruce Sterling (born 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his cyberpunk works. Born in Brownsville, Texas, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a journalist before pursuing writing full-time. Sterling's early novels include "Involution Ocean" (1977) and "Schismatrix" (1985). He gained wide recognition with the cyberpunk classic "Neuromancer" (1984), co-written with William Gibson. Sterling's works explore themes of technology, progress, and the future. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Sterling's critical success stems from his innovative ideas, thought-provoking narratives, and distinctive writing style that combines literary elements with technical jargon.