Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time ""perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre."" Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is ""Visionary-in-Residence"" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003. William Gibson is the author of many books, including Neuromancer and, most recently, Pattern Recognition. Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time ""perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre."" Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is ""Visionary-in-Residence"" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003.