Bruce Sterling Quotes

born 1954 United States

Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology.

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Also known as: Sterling, Bruce

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Believe me there are few things deader or more obsolescent than a science fiction novel that predicts the future when the future has passed it by.

War was a kind of poverty with bullets.

Join the Navy and See the Worlds (2009)

Revolutions. New Orders. For Laura the words had the cobwebby taste of twentieth-century thinking. Visionary mass movements were all over the 1900s, and whenever they broke through, blood followed in buckets.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Follow your weird, ladies and gentlemen. Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude.

The Dark Age world had all kinds of potential issues that might bother Anita Atkinson: climate crisis, state collapse, financial ruin, mass extinction, catastrophic population dieback. None of those things bothered Anita, though, because she didn’t understand long words.

Pictures from the Resurrection (2015)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bruce Sterling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.