"Bicycle Repairman" is a postcyberpunk short story by American science fiction writer

Bruce Sterling Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first ...

. It deals with the eponymous character, who lives in a functioning

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

community in the near future and has an encounter with the misguided authorities. As is common in Sterling's stories, it deals with issues of markets, governance and the tensions between the two. "Bicycle Repairman" was first published in ''Intersections'' in 1996. It won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1997. It was reprinted in a 1999 collection of Sterling's work, ''A Good Old-Fashioned Future'', and again in 2007 in '' Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology''.

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* 1996 short stories Hugo Award for Best Novelette winning works Science fiction short stories American novellas Short stories by Bruce Sterling {{1990s-sf-story-stub