Free Speculative Fiction Online: Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

Winner of 2 Hugos (and nominated for 11 more).

Nominated for 10 Nebulas.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only! Other awards, including the Retro Hugos, are not covered)

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Award-winning fiction:

Bicycle Repairman (Asimov's, October 1996)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1997.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fourteenth Edition.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 2’.
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Taklamakan (Asimov's, October 1998)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1999.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1999.
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Award-nominated fiction:

This list is limited to the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards, and the World Fantasy Awards. See here for further awards.

Swarm (F & SF, April 1982)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1983.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1982.
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Spider Rose (F & SF, August 1982)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
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Cicada Queen (Universe Anthology #13, 1983)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1983.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Sunken Gardens (Omni, June 1984)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Schismatrix (Arbor House, 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1985.
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Dinner in Audoghast (Asimov's, May 1985)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Green Days in Brunei (Asimov's, October 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1985.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Flowers of Edo (Asimov's, March 1987)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1987.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Islands in the Net (Morrow/ Arbor House, 1988)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1989.
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Our Neural Chernobyl (F & SF, June 1988)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Sixth Edition.
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Dori Bangs (Asimov's, September 1989)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1990.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Third Edition.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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With William Gibson: The Difference Engine (Gollancz, 1990)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1991.
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Deep Eddy (Asimov's, August 1993)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1994.
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Holy Fire (Bantam Spectra, 1996)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1997.
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Distraction (Bantam Spectra, 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1999.
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Maneki Neko (F & SF, May 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 4’.
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Kiosk (F & SF, January 2007)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2007.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Two.
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Other fiction online:

With Rudy Rucker: Storming the Cosmos (Asimov's, December 1985)
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We See Things Differently (semiotext(e) #14, 1989)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Eighth Edition.
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With Rudy Rucker: Big Jelly (Asimov's, November 1994)
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Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct (Nature #402, November 1999)
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With Rudy Rucker: Junk DNA (Asimov's, January 2003)
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With Rudy Rucker: Hormiga Canyon (Asimov's, August 2007)
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The Interoperation (Technology Review, November 2007)
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With Rudy Rucker: Colliding Branes (Asimov's, February 2009)
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Black Swan (Interzone #221, March 2009)
Alternate link.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 15’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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With Chris Nakashima-Brown: Windsor Executive Solutions (Futurismic, May 2010)
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The Exterminator’s Want-Ad (Shareable.net, June 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

With Rudy Rucker: Good Night, Moon (Tor.com, October 2010)
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With Rudy Rucker: Loco (Tor.com, June 2012)
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From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter (An Aura of Familiarity Anthology, 2013)
Available as part of this anthology.
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The Brain Dump (Terraform, November 2014)
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With Rudy Rucker: Totem Poles (Tor.com, August 2016)
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With John Kessel: Money in the Bank (Lightspeed, September 2023)
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