Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

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Okay I had been out of the Air Force for a month or so, had a place close to Washington, in Silver Spring. Gibson actually makes me a little bit tired these days, but his vintage short fiction is still pretty execellent.

In the introduction Sterling emphasises the overlapping worlds of high tech and the modern pop underground. Oh, no, quite impossible, even with those twelve giant props; but they loved the look, don’t you see?

Hoped it wouldn’t happen again, but it did, and this time I went to Walter Reed and said, ‘Hey folks, I’m having these episodes.

Very interesting, Stross talks about how pressure from his publishers has negatively impacted his output. A friend actually posed me the question last night of what the easiest entry might be for a non-scifi fan into the cyberpunk world in particular.

had, have, and most importantly, perhaps will have is another which must be examined for elements other than imagery or mood if the cyberpunk elements are to be discovered. And before we reach the point where people with no disabilities choose to get prosthetics as an enhancement, we still need to work hard by helping those who are in need of such technologies. on the Morgan / McDonald question, I’ve been considering it and its the subtext of Gibson that will always give him the edge over what has followed. Given the intro is heavy on the artistic side, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that something lurks in those stories related to cyberpunk even if it is not readily obvious. While there are a couple newer Cyberpunk collections, The Ultimate Cyberpunk coming to mind, the first is still the best.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I blog both over at my own blog, the River of Gods entry is a touch long (I was back from holiday with time on my hands, what can I say? Together with Lewis Shiner, Sterling wrote the short story Mozart in Mirrorshades (1986) , in which he tells the story of a time traveler that goes back in time, with the intention of rewriting history.The story by William Gibson is a denunciation of the ideals of Gernsback, the founding principles of American science fiction, and Modernism through the adventures of a photographer on assignment to catalog the remaining architectural remnants of "American Streamlined Moderne" described by the character's employer ".