Bruce Sterling
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Oct 26, 2026
Kodwo EshunGUEST
Absolutely.
Kodwo EshunGUEST
Gibson, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, all of the cyberpunks, but Gibson mostly.
Kodwo EshunGUEST
I mean, sonic fiction itself is a neologism.
Kodwo EshunGUEST
You know, the convergence of sound.
Damien WalterGUEST
I love it because it is Gibson on screen to an extent.
Damien WalterGUEST
uh but in many ways gibson has been like uh one of the things he's had to suffer through is that other people have taken cyberpunk like i i say that there is actually no such thing as cyberpunk there's just william gibson fanfic yeah uh because because because this annoys people in my facebook group and it's not true that there were other cyberpunk writers around the same time Bruce Sterling, for instance, Pat Cadigan.
Damien WalterGUEST
But then what happens is you get, so the big one is Cyberpunk 2077.
Damien WalterGUEST
So I'll piss off all Gen Z listeners who might be out there, but Cyberpunk 2077 is like, it is just a rip-off of Neuromancer, basically via the video game.
Stephen JonesGUEST
And Killer got shut down.
Stephen JonesGUEST
It's documented in a book by Bruce Sterling called Hacker Crackdown.
Stephen JonesGUEST
And that was really sort of the catalyst, because prior to that, SDF was looking to run Unix.
Stephen JonesGUEST
But when Killer got shut down in 1990, it solidified the idea.
Adrian M. GibsonHOST
If not, that's totally cool.
Adrian M. GibsonHOST
And kind of the approach that you took really reminds me a lot of, I would say, like earlier cyberpunk, Uh, books where it's like, you know, a William Gibson, a William Gibson or Bruce Sterling doesn't give a shit about like holding your hand and they're, they're going to throw terminology at you.
Adrian M. GibsonHOST
But like you said, there's, there's like, um, It's like an accretion of context where that context builds up over and over and over again.
Adrian M. GibsonHOST
And you start to familiarize yourself with the ways in which these words that are unfamiliar are interplaying with scenarios in language that you can't understand.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
The magazine was subsequently renamed Mondo 2000.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
Its first issue featured cyberpunk writers William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley, alongside articles about hackers and computer viruses.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
John Morgenthaler, a Mondo regular, explained it this way.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
There was this really big idea of hacking, that we could hack computers, hack into our own brains, hack our biological system, and even our own consciousness.
NoahHOST
doesn't even mean that you are more likely to get a good outcome.
Jesse VincentGUEST
And then there's a short story from many years ago for the other side of this by Bruce Sterling called Maneke Neko.
Jesse VincentGUEST
And it's a post-scarcity AI story about what the world could look like if we have our omniscient AI friends and they decide to be our friends.
Jesse VincentGUEST
And it is worth reading.
Emily St. JamesHOST
... which is what if we invented modern technology in the British empire of the 1800s.
Emily St. JamesHOST
It's, uh, um, um, uh, the Bruce Sterling, William Gibson novel, The Difference, um, Engine.
Phil IscoveHOST
Okay.
Emily St. JamesHOST
Uh, which is a wonderful book.
Martha WellsGUEST
I didn't really, I don't really have a group now.
Martha WellsGUEST
I did workshops with Steve and Laura for a long time, and I also did a workshop with Bruce Sterling when he was living in Austin and doing the Turkey City Workshop.
Scott EdelmanHOST
Oh.
Martha WellsGUEST
I went to that one time.
Duncan BellGUEST
But going back to the Blade Runner point, here I think Gibson is a better representation.
Duncan BellGUEST
So in Neuromancer and its sequels and in many of the other writings in the cyberpunk genres, people like Bruce Sterling would be another example.
Duncan BellGUEST
They have humans that are augmented, so they have either prosthetics that give them enhanced capacities for thinking, for fighting.
Duncan BellGUEST
They have various more convent-- well, maybe not conventional, but certainly the way that we think about transhumanism really from the earlier in the century.
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