Bruce Sterling

• author, editor, journalist, critic, cyberpunk role model

• science fiction novels, stories, and editorial work abound, the best known are:
  Involution Ocean (1977)
  The Artificial Kid (1980)
  Schismatrix (1985)
  Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)
  Islands in the Net (1988)
  Crystal Express (1990)
  The Difference Engine (1990, with William Gibson)

• The Hacker Crackdown (nonfiction) about computer crime and civil liberties issues is on its way.

  They created an artificial reality: telespace.

  Individual mental access via telelink into a collective program. Theoreticians suggested that the technology resembled the twentieth-century notion of the collective unconscious. Never widely understood or accepted, the great analyst Carl Jung defined the collective unconscious as the matrix of the human mind and its inventions. A body of psychic energy comprised of magical, symbolical, mythical, historical, and psychological referents. Jung proposed that this matrix existed independently of the human individual. That the matrix was inherited, perpetually maintained, and manifested in ways scarcely realized by each individual, in his or her life, through the ages of humanity.

  Lisa Mason, Arachne (New York: Morrow, 1990), 71.