About Bruce Bethke
Born 1955. Bruce Bethke is an American novelist and science fiction writer.
Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author best known for his 1983 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, Headcrash, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US.
Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are available on his website, in an essay entitled "The Etymology of Cyberpunk".
Bethke served as a judge on the Philip K. Dick Award in 2013.
Life Bethke lives in Minnesota where he works as a developer of supercomputer software.
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American writer and software developer
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Bruce Bethke was born in 1955 in Milwaukee.
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