The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014
The annual round-up.
Link tags: sterling
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Omni Reboot | THE LANDLINE
Omni returns with a Bruce Sterling short story that marries alternative history and satire with a dash of digital preservation.
Go ahead, just wait a year, or two years, or maybe five years. Then try to find this, later. There will be no sign of this website, because it’s just made of pixels. No remains of the machine that you read it with, either.
The Ecuadorian Library by Bruce Sterling
A good ol’ fashioned rant.
From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter, a short story by Bruce Sterling
H.P. Lovecraft meets James Bridle in this great little story commissioned by the Institute For The Future.
An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
Bruce Sterling writes about the New Aesthetic in an article that’s half manifesto and half critique.
Grab a cup of tea or hit your “read it later” bookmarklet of choice for this one—it’s a lengthy but worthwhile read.
The Blast Shack
Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the unintended consequences of cypherpunk.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Bruce Sterling - Prophet and loss
I know this sound uncharitable but there's a good chance that the reason why Bruce Sterling's books aren't selling is because he's just not a very good writer. And I say that as a big sci-fi fan. I mean, really... have you read Distraction? I tried ...and failed.
Maneki Neko - ScottWiki
It's been years since I read this charming Bruce Sterling short story but there isn't a week goes by that I don't think of it. It has grown more relevant over time.
When Blobjects Rule the Earth
Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech