# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-bethke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:17:44.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-bethke"
name: "Bruce Bethke"
slug: "bruce-bethke"
description: "Bruce Bethke 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."
tagline: "American writer and software developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Bethke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.56
  momentum:             0.6553398058252428
  historical:           7.431608000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brucebethke.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E9%B2%81%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E8%B4%9D%E6%80%9D%E5%85%8B"
    title: "布鲁斯·贝思克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke"
    title: "Bruce Bethke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke"
    title: "Bruce Bethke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke"
    title: "Bruce Bethke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke"
    title: "Bruce Bethke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke"
    title: "Bruce Bethke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8E%D1%81"
    title: "Бетке, Брюс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8E%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B5"
    title: "Брюс Бетке"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4085972"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump