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Loading... Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (edition 1988)by Bruce Sterling (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I guess I expected more. ( ) Read this when it first came out, and knew it was for me. I'd already read Gibson and Sterling a bit -- an early Sterling-head as I found his first novel at a garage sale in Sterling, Colorado when I was a teen in the early 80's -- and read Journal Wired just after finding this. Journal Wired, I have to say, had a slightly rawer selection of stories than Mirrorshades, but is probably impossible to find today. Grab this, and keep it in print. Look for Journal Wired here and you'll find it... 3 issues, trade paperback. I dove as deeply as I could into these seminal authors and was not disappointed. Even in the early 90's though many of their works were out of print (or locally unavailable) so I am still picking up their works, and discovering the "post-cyberpunk" movement authors who succeeded them. They're all worth reading. So I enjoy cyberpunk and I also find it, as a genre, a bit ridiculous. That said, doesn’t mean I don’t kinda want to wear all black leather and reflective sunglasses and get a bunch of piercings and UV visible tattoos for about 5 minutes after I put the book down. Individual stories however I enjoy quite a lot. Cyberpunk’s downfall in my mind is, secondarily, that much of it is from 1980-1995 so some tech ideas now seem silly, but primarily because the first cyberpunk thing I read was a Shadowrun core rulebook. Anyway, it’s a solid anthology and my fav story was Solstice by James Patrick Kelly. Moral: don’t first expose yourself to a sub-genre by reading a sub-sub-genre that includes Elf Street Shaman Deckers. no reviews | add a review
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Short stories labeled "Mirroshade," "Neuromanatic," "Cyberpunk," etc. by such authors as Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley and others. No library descriptions found. |
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