Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel & Bruce Sterling & Gwyneth Jones & Greg Egan & Pat Cadigan & William Gibson & David Marusek & Walter Jon Williams & Michael Swanwick & Charles Stross & Paul Di Filippo & Christopher Rowe & Elizabeth Bear & Mary Rosenblum & Paolo Bacigalupi & Cory Doctorow
Language: English
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: Jun 15, 2007
Description:
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 introduction and excerpts from a hotly-contested online debate, Rewired is the first anthology to define and capture the crackling excitement of the post-cyberpunks. From the grittiness of Mirrorshades to the Singularity and beyond, it's time to revive the revolution. Are you ready?