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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

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And a special thanks to Yoshio Kobayashi, our Tokyo liaison, translator of Schismatrix and Blood Music , for favors too numerous to mention. The French Revolution also occurred, prematurely, but was considerably "less messy": most aristocrats were either made to live normal lives or put to slave labor rather than guillotined, and parts of the monarchy's family were allowed to remain in the Palace of Versailles.

Bruce Sterling's "Mirrorshades" represents the first anthology of the nascent movement known as cyberpunk. Cyberpunk (a term said to have been coined by editor Gardner Dozois) was the most vigorous movement in the American SF of the 1980s; an attempt to combine New Wave literary virtues with punk-rock energy and a respect for high technology -- in other words, hard SF done with style and a supposedly streetwise sensibility. When she asks him about a leather bikini in an issue of Vogue, he pats her on the rear and tells her that she is with him now and can get what she wants. He also gets political in ways that I like in my SF–of course, Ken MacLeod’s “Fall Revolution” is one of my favorite series of relatively recent vintage, so make of that what you will. I love that stuff, but I also need theme and metaphor in the way Gibson does it in the Sprawl trilogy.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Lightning walked across the purpled sky, ripping it, crazing it into a giant, upturned bowl of shattered glass.

The free-wheeling zaniness of Norman Spinrad and the rock esthetic of Michael Moorcock; the intellectual daring of Brian Aldiss; and, always, J. Aleph had observed George Jordan’s arrival, his tossing on his bunk, his interview with Charley Hughes.I sort of gave up on him after wading through the vastness of Cryptonomicon and being left with the stupid people-getting-shot-with-arrows-in-the-jungle cliffhanger. Meanwhile, cyberpunk's ripples continue to spread, exciting some, challenging others—and outraging a few, whose pained remonstrances are not yet fully heard.

I hesitated over one sketch of a particularly grandiose prop-driven airliner, all wing, like a fat symmetrical boomerang with windows in unlikely places. According to the profile Aleph had put together from Air Force records and the National Data Bank, a man with slightly above-average aptitudes and intelligence, a distinctly above-average taste for the bizarre—thus his volunteering for EHIT and combat.Favoring the architecture of his native Mongo, he cruised up and down the coast erecting raygun emplacements in white stucco. The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. This bar hade, see, was floating around on its own little flying saucer, looked kind of like the hubcaps on cousin Wayne’s vintage Caddy.

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