Well-Appointed 'Cyberpunk SF' Library Collection Should Possess
(circa August 1996)
cyberview_91.report - Bruce Sterlings conference report on the CyberView
(SummerCon) 1991 hacker convention.
free_as_air.speech - "Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge",
Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association
June 1992, San Francisco CA. Main premise: "The nature of our society
strongly affects the nature of our technology."
gurps_labor_lost.article - Bruce Sterling's account of the US Secret Service
raid on Steve Jackson Games, and its aftermath.
paradigms_workshop_sterling.lexicon - Bruce Sterling's "A Workshop Lexicon"
The 'Paragons' Iteration", from from PARAGONS: TWELVE MASTER SCIENCE
FICTION WRITERS PLY THEIR CRAFT. Sterling says of it, "This
lexicon is not a guide to scholarship. The Workshop Lexicon is a
guide (of sorts) for down-and-dirty hairy-knuckled sci-fi writers,
the kind of ambitious subliterate guttersnipes who actually write
and sell professional genre material. It's rough, rollicking,
rule-of-thumb stuff suitable for shouting aloud while pounding the
table.
sterling.biblio - Bruce Sterling bibliography.
sterling_gibson_nas.speeches - Speeches on networking and the future by
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, National Academy of Sciences
Convocation on Technology and Education, Washington D. C., May 10, 1993
sterling_hstf.testimony - Testimony of Bruce Sterling, on the "National
Research and Education Network" before the House
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Washington DC, April 29,
1993. Excerpt: "...However, it's a truism in technological
development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
Today I'd like to mention two or three trifling problems
that have come up that were not entirely obvious from the
perspective of the early 1990s." Sterlings novel [pun intended] testimony
is presented as the comments of a hypothetical NII worker from the 21st
Century. This is probably the first time science fiction has been
presented as testimony to a Congressional hearing.
virtual_city_sterling.speech - Speech at Rice Design Alliance: "The
Virtual City", Houston, Texas, March 2, 1994, by Bruce Sterling.
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between communications
technology and urbanization, culminating in a look at how virtual
reality may be used for future urban planning and architecture.
virtual_war.article - _Wired_ article on "virtual war" - the use of
"virtual reality" in war simulation, and, eventually, actual combat.
