* The cyberpunk novelists William Gibson and Bruce Sterling co-authored a steampunk novel of alternative history titled The Difference Engine in which Babbage's Difference and Analytical Engines became available to Victorian society.

* 1954 – Bruce Sterling, American author

Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.

The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan and others.

Bruce Sterling in his universe of Shaper / Mechanist suggested an idea of alternative cyborg called Lobster, which is made not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell ( e. g. a Powered Exoskeleton ).

Author Bruce Sterling, who popularized this meaning, credits John Perry Barlow as the first to use it to refer to " the present-day nexus of computer and telecommunications networks.

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Noteworthy authors in this genre are William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, and Pat Cadigan.

Popular examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, as well as the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, although seeds of the genre may be seen in certain works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles, and in such games as Space 1889 and Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures.

But caution is needed when assessing any literary movement, for example science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, reacting to his association with another SF movement in the 1980s remarked:

Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling discussed the affair in his non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.

After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre — steampunk — with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

Futurists such as Ray Kurzweil, Bruce Sterling, and Vernor Vinge believe that the exponential improvement described by Moore's law will ultimately lead to a technological singularity: a period where progress in technology occurs almost instantly.

In the steampunk 1990 novel The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, a character named Gautier is a clacker, a " hacker " of steam-powered computers capable of forging identities and sabotaging the Imperial Engines.

Six authors of the first Wired issue ( 1. 1 ) had written for Whole Earth Review, most notably Bruce Sterling and Stewart Brand.

Over the years, Wireds writers have included Jorn Barger, John Perry Barlow, John Battelle, Paul Boutin, Stewart Brand, Gareth Branwyn, Po Bronson, Scott Carney, Michael Chorost, Douglas Coupland, James Daly, Joshua Davis, J. Bradford DeLong, Mark Dery, David Diamond, Patrick Di Justo, Cory Doctorow, Esther Dyson, Mark Frauenfelder, Simson Garfinkel, William Gibson, Dan Gillmor Mike Godwin, George Gilder, Lou Ann Hammond, Danny Hillis, Steven Johnson, Bill Joy, Jon Katz, Leander Kahney, Richard Kadrey, Jaron Lanier, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Levinson, Steven Levy, John Markoff, Wil McCarthy, Glyn Moody, Charles Platt, Josh Quittner, Spencer Reiss, Howard Rheingold, Rudy Rucker, Paul Saffo, Evan Schwartz, Peter Schwartz, Alex Steffen, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, Kevin Warwick, Dave Winer, Belinda Parmar and Gary Wolf.

He was succeeded by James Turner, who expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Shea and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works.

* Article about Nadar by Bruce Sterling

* Bruce Sterling ( born 1954 ), American science fiction writer

* Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations ( Golden Gryphon, 2003, ISBN 1-930846-13-4 ) ( includes Waldrop's collaborations with Steven Utley, Bruce Sterling, Leigh Kennedy, George R. R. Martin, and others.

* Think of The Prestige — article by Bruce Sterling ( archived ).

* Bruce Sterling used a fictionalised Tuareg tribe in his novel Islands in the Net.

* Science fiction author Bruce Sterling wrote a story, Maneki-neko, in which the cat-paw gesture is the sign of a secret AI-based gift economy.

Author Bruce Sterling has described his recurring character Leggy Starlitz, star of a series of short stories and the novel Zeitgeist, as " a nonlinear descendant of Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius.

This role-playing game is based on the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and other authors of the " Mirrorshades group ".

This was Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973.

In July 1997, Bruce Perens published the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

( A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on 27 July 1866.

Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.

On 7 July, Bruce and his friends made terms with Edward by a treaty called the Capitulation of Irvine.

But, on 7 July, King Edward I died, leaving Bruce opposed by his son, Edward II.

On July 13, 2011 it was confirmed that Raimi along with Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert would produce the remake of Raimi's classic, The Evil Dead.

* July 15 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 2006 )

* 1274 – July 11 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland ( d. 1329 )

Bruce Lee ( traditional: 李小龍 ) ( born Lee Jun-fan ; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973 ) was a Hong Kongese actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, founder of Jeet Kune Do, and the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen.

On July 1, 2007, the Liechtenstein Ruling Prince, Hans-Adam II, and Liechtenstein Prime Minister, Otmar Hasler, appointed Dr. Bruce S. Allen and Mr. Leodis C. Matthews, both in the United States of America, as the first two Honorary Consuls in history for the Principality of Liechtenstein.

* July 11 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland ( d. 1329 )

Ransford Braham is the new Attorney General of Jamaica as of July 6, 2011 when Senator Dorothy Lightbourne was sacked by Prime Minister Bruce Golding

On 5 July 2003 about 350 skiers and 70 skifield staff were trapped on the mountain overnight at Top o ' the Bruce when a sudden snow storm blew up and within a few minutes made the access road too dangerous to descend.

The July 4, 1966 edition of RPM Magazine ( published in Toronto ) notes that " Bruce Cockburn and Mr

" 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )", often known just as " Sandy ", is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, originally appearing as the second song on his album The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle.

On the July 4 show in Gothenborg, Steven Van Zandt brought back the famous " double-mike " ditty he and Bruce used to do in the 1970s with the song's chorus.

After Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until George Carlin was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing the routine " Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television " ( the case against Carlin was eventually dismissed ).

* Marie Castello ( 1915 – 2008 ), fortuneteller known as Madam Marie who was made famous in Bruce Springsteen's hit " 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )".

* Bruce Springsteen dedicated his 1978 performance of " Darkness on the Edge of Town " live at Winterland to Kovic, saying that he read Born on the Fourth of July, and " loved the book a whole lot.

On July 14, 2006, the township supervisors of Mahoning Township elected Bruce Keiper mayor to serve until January 1, 2008.

C. Bruce Littlejohn ( July 22, 1913-April 21, 2007 ) retired Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and author on South Carolina legal history is buried in the Pacolet First Baptist Church cemetery.

* Eric Clapton ( April – August 1965, November 1965 – July 1966 ) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream,

Edward Balliol, son of King John Balliol, assisted by the English and Scottish nobles disinherited by Robert I, invaded Scotland inflicting heavy defeats on the Bruce party on 11 August 1332 at Dupplin Moor and then again at Halidon Hill on 10 July 1333.

Edward Balliol's forces delivered heavy defeats on the Bruce supporters at Dupplin Moor on 11 August 1332 and again at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333, at which the 17-year-old Robert participated.