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. 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.