Some Public Limits of Everyday Weirdness (2025)A year ago, here on Medium, I resolved to do more repair work around the family house. If my results seemed rather “weird,” I decided not…Jan 12Jan 12
“The Ancient Engineer” by Bruce Sterling (2016)It took me forty years to write this story. From very early in my career, I wanted to write a historical cyber-fantasy about some…Dec 8, 2024Dec 8, 2024
“The Beachcomber of Novi Kotor” by Bruce Sterling (2017)Commissioned by e-flux as part of a series of works about future robotics and labor.Nov 1, 2024Nov 1, 2024
“Mysterious Discovery” by Bruce Sterling (2009)*It’s a brief satire commissioned by “Discovery” magazine back in 2009, and the topic is Artificial Intelligence and its language issues…Aug 15, 20241Aug 15, 20241
“The Wonderful Power of Storytelling,” by Bruce Sterling, 1991*This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn’t been expecting much, because…Jul 12, 20243Jul 12, 20243
Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce SterlingPreliminary Notes on the Delvish DialectJul 7, 20243Jul 7, 20243
Artificial Intelligence explains “cyberpunk” to Bruce Sterling, 2024 A.D.*Clearly there are elements of karmic retribution here.Jul 3, 20244Jul 3, 20244
The Lester Dent Master Plot Formula, by Lester Dent*He was a hard-working guy at the typewriter.Jun 17, 2024Jun 17, 2024
Goldfish Memories by He Jiyan*Machine-translated from a Chinese webpost on the Internet Archive, because this post was almost immediately censored and obliterated in…Jun 14, 20241Jun 14, 20241
