Mirrorshades Forum on the WELL

Ever wonder where science fiction writers get their ideas? Judge the process for yourself in the MIRRORSHADES Postmodern Archive on the WELL. It's a pastebomb feast of raw clippings out of Bruce Sterling's email, mixed with a tasty soupçon of street tech and litcrit. Currently tracking: art, design, crime, virtual war, rip-off cybercreeps, dead media, anarchy, spooks, sickening outrages and cheering developments.

If it's in MIRRORSHADES, it'll be science fiction in a year. In two years it will be in WIRED magazine. In three years teenage girls will be wearing it. In four years it'll be mentioned on CNN. In five years it'll be "discovered."

MIRRORSHADES Hosts

• Bruce Sterling (bruces), author of Hacker Crackdown, Islands in the Net, Heavy Weather, Schismatrix, Globalhead, Crystal Express, co-author of The Difference Engine, editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, etc. Read the Bruce Sterling FAQ.
• Jon Lebkowsky (jonl), author, journalist, cyborganic grocer, homme d'affaires.
• Linda Castellani (castle), WELL technomaven, writer for hire and rubber goddess.

Recent Fiction by Bruce Sterling

Distraction

Holy Fire

Heavy Weather

The Mirrorshades Bookstore has more, along with book recommendations by Bruce and cohost Jon Lebkowsky.

The Mirrorshades Guide to the Web

• Bruce Sterling's gopher site
  
• C-theory
• Virtual SMOF-BBS (Archives include Vincent Omniaveritas' Cheap Truth, a seminal cyberpunk ezine.)
• William Latham
• Rudy Rucker's Home Page
• Shanghai-Ed
• Greg Egan's Home Page
• Clifford Pickover's Home Page
• Seiko Mikami artworks archive
• V2 Archive, Institute for Unstable Media
• Telepolis Webzine
• Bud Plant Illustrated Books, SF and fantasy art
• Ghost Sites on the Web
• Time And Bits -- Managing Digital Continuity
• History of Art and Computing
• Gonzo Links -- SPOOKS
• Nipperhead Antique Phonograph Site
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
• The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
• Long Now Foundation
• The Saint Petersburg Times
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
• IGC Atmosphere and Climate Resources
• EPA Global Warming Site
• Artificial Life Resources
• R. U. Sirius' Revolting! and The Mutate Project
• Mark Dery's page, an adjunct to his recent book, Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
• William S. Burroughs
• Pat Cadigan
• Nova Express
• Postmodern rants from the world's world-est email list, nettime
• William Gibson
• $cientology

Bruce Sterling

This page created and maintained by jonl@well.com, castle@well.com and bruces@well.com.
Thanks to Joel Westerberg for his contributions to our evolving Mirrorshades page design strategy.
Updated on 2/7/99. Send quirky comments and critiques about this page to jonl@well.com