He edited the collection Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement, and co-authored the novel The Difference Engine (1990) with William Gibson.

His short stories appeared in the collectionĬrystal Express (1990) and Globalhead (1992) and (1977), The Artificial Kid (1980), Schismatrix The author of five science fiction novels: Involution Ocean Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdownīruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, critic, was born in 1954. Their basic tenets were flagrant sexual promiscuity, open and copious drug use, the political overthrow of any powermonger over thirty years of age, and an immediate end to the war in Vietnam, by any means necessary, including the psychic levitation of the Pentagon. The Yippies, who took their name from the largely fictional 'Youth International Party,' carried out a loud and lively policy of surrealistic subversion and outrageous political mischief. and Stanford, in the 1960s.īut the genuine roots of the modern hacker *underground* can probably be traced most successfully to a now much-obscured hippie anarchist movement known as the Yippies. Legitimate 'hackers,' those computer enthusiasts who are independent-minded but law-abiding, generally trace their spiritual ancestry to elite technical universities, especially M.I.T. The earliest proto-hackers were probably those unsung mischievous telegraph boys who were summarily fired by the Bell Company in 1878. Not only are 'hackers' novel in their activities, but they come in a variety of odd subcultures, with a variety of languages, motives and values. Of all the major players in the Hacker Crackdown: the phone companies, law enforcement, the civil libertarians, and the 'hackers' themselves - the 'hackers' are by far the most mysterious, by far the hardest to understand, by far the weirdest.

Globalhead by Bruce Sterling