Swarm

Sterling, Bruce. "Swarm." F&SF April 1982.

Listed as one of BS's Mechanist/Shaper stories by T. Maddox in "The War of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives" article cited under Literary Criticism. The Swarm is a hive organism opposing the "posthumanity" of one Arfiel (see Maddox, "War" 240).