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Mar 2

“Mare Nostrum,” by Bruce Sterling (2022)

The English-language version of my contribution to the recent Italian fantascienza anthology, “Fanta-Scienza 2.” This story was directly inspired by the work of the Italian scientist, Dr. Antonio Bicchi, a professor of robotics at the University of Pisa and director of the “Laboratory of Soft Robotics.” MARE NOSTRUM by Bruce…

Fantascienza

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“Mare Nostrum,” by Bruce Sterling (2022)
“Mare Nostrum,” by Bruce Sterling (2022)
Fantascienza

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Dec 22, 2022

“Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling (2022)

It’s an eccentric work of scientific fabulation that’s my all-too-topical farewell to Belgrade. One of my homes for many years. I could likely sell this yarn and print it somewhere, but why, if no one in the Balkans would see it anyway? An ambivalent gift for Orthodox Christmas. Balkan Cosmology …

Science Fiction

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“Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling (2022)
“Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling (2022)
Science Fiction

56 min read


May 4, 2022

“Are You For 86?” by Bruce Sterling (1992)

*In the American Civil Cold War, what comes around, goes around. Are You For 86? by Bruce Sterling Leggy Starlitz emerged from behind cool smoked glass to the raucous screeching of seagulls. Hot summer sun glinted fiercely off the Pacific. …

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41 min read


Sep 7, 2021

“Code” by Bruce Sterling (2001)

Well, that was Austin — in 2001, twenty long years ago. This, too, shall pass. CODE by Bruce Sterling Even in death, Louis’s bulk had wedged him firmly into his work chair. Van felt swift, unthinking rage. How could Louis do this to him? Van had been working on a…

Austin

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Austin

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Jun 14, 2021

A Pause in the Time of Villangomez

Villangomez and his home town I’m in Ibiza presently, and me and the artificially intelligent machine-translators are busy with the works of Señor Maria Villangomez i Llobet, known as “Marianu” to his friends. Villangomez is by far the best known Ibizan poet, though he’s little cherished on the mainland, even…

Poetry

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A Pause in the Time of Villangomez
A Pause in the Time of Villangomez
Poetry

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Apr 8, 2021

Social Codes at Feral File

Social Codes at Feral File by Bruce Sterling “Feral File” is a small and closely focussed NFT art market where the ten curated exhibits double as a gallery show. Everything sold out. It sold so rapidly that the site crashed. These are good times for the non-fungible token. …

Code Art

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Social Codes at FeralFile
Social Codes at FeralFile
Code Art

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Nov 12, 2020

“The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long (1929)

*Frank Belknap Long was a junior member of the Lovecraft Circle, and I enjoy the raw flummery of all this science-fictional atemporality riffing. It’s like a bubbling stew of Lovecraftian suspension-of-disbelief devices. “Einstein and John Dee are strange bedfellows.” *It’s especially good when a victim of cosmic horror is “scrawling…

Lovecraftian

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“The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long (1929)
“The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long (1929)
Lovecraftian

21 min read


Oct 28, 2020

An Essay on the New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling (2012)

*Wearing the art critic hat. First posted in my Wired blog “Beyond the Beyond.” An Essay on the New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling 04.02.12 I witnessed the New Aesthetic panel at South by Southwest 2012. It was a significant event and a good thing to see. If you know nothing…

New Aesthetic

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New Aesthetic

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Oct 6, 2020

Lizards and Islands

Ibiza and Formentera: Lizards and Islands by Antonia Maria Cicer Balafia Postals, 2020 a review by Bruce Sterling This is a nonfiction book by an Ibiza-born herpetologist, and it’s meant to acquaint foreigners with the island’s local lizards. Ibiza abounds with psychedelic lizards, bright and colorful lizard-memes which adorn sun-hats…

Ibiza

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Lizards and Islands
Lizards and Islands
Ibiza

9 min read


Aug 22, 2020

“White Fungus” by Bruce Sterling (2009)

First published in “Beyond #1,” Sun Architecture, 2009. White Fungus As I was explaining to you last time, I named the boy ‘Vitruvius.’ I was younger then, and maybe a little too proud of my architecture degree. …

Science Fiction

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Science Fiction

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