Cyberpunk is dead The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out sunglasses. Once radical, cyberpunk is nothing more than a brand. Time to stop flipping the channel These sixteen extreme stories reveal a government ninja routed by a bicycle repairman, the inventor of digitized paper hijacked by his college crush, a dead boy trapped in a warped storybook paradise, and the Queen of England attacked with the deadliest of forbidden technology: a working modem. You'll meet Manfred Macx, renegade meme-broker, Red Sonja, virtual reality sex-goddess, and Felix, humble sysadmin and post-apocalyptic hero. Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology) have united cyberpunk visionaries William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan with the new post-cyberpunk vanguard including Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Jonathan Lethem. Including a canon-establishing intro...
Author: Bacigalupi Paolo, Cadigan Pat, Stross Charles, Doctorow Cory, Sterling Bruce, Bear Elizabeth, Di Filippo Paul, Williams Walter Jon, Rosenblum Mary, Gibson William, Egan Greg, Kelly James Patrick, Kessel John, Swanwick Michael, Rowe Christopher, Jones Gwyneth, Marusek David
ISBN: 9781892391537
Year of publication: 2007
Genre: Military fiction, Cyberpunk, Social fiction
Number of pages: 530
Reading time: 8 h. 50 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF