Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN num: 9780441533824
ISBN number: 0441533825
Label: Ace Books/Berkley
Manufacturer: Ace Books/Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 239
Printing Date: July 01, 1988
Publishing house: Ace Books/Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 47446
Studio: Ace Books/Berkley
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With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive 'cyberpunk' short fiction collection. HC: Arbor House.
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Either I do not believe the book has a good selection of Cyberpunk stories collection, or there are not that many good Cyberpunk stories?? Being a classical Sci-fi fan reading all those Asimov and classical stuff, this sort of new blood stories doesn't live up to it. May be I haven't seen the real good Cyberpunk story yet. But certainly not this collection.
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A battered copy lives in my nightstand at all times. Between novels, I always come back to this, flipping through the pages until a word catches my eye. Such a diversity of talent, mixed together quite well here.
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Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades announced the existence of cyberpunk. A more modern type of street level, urban science fiction in a lot of cases. While the authors here have done better work elsewhere this is still a very interesting and influential collection, and certainly of use to people with an interest in that sort of science fiction.
Cadigan, Gibson and Shirley are all here, for example.
Mirrorshades : The Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson
Mirrorshades : Snake-Eyes - Tom Maddox
Mirrorshades : Rock On - Pat Cadigan
Mirrorshades : Tales of Houdini - Rudy Rucker
Mirrorshades : 400 Boys - Marc Laidlaw
Mirrorshades : Solstice - James Patrick Kelly
Mirrorshades : Petra - Greg Bear
Mirrorshades : Till Human Voices Wake Us - Lewis Shiner
Mirrorshades : Freezone - John Shirley
Mirrorshades : Stone Lives - Paul Di Filippo
Mirrorshades : Red Star Winter Orbits - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Mirrorshades : Mozart in Mirrorshades - Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
Not a fan of retro sf design.
4 out of 5
Serpent brain wartech is problematic.
4 out of 5
Direct mental music.
3.5 out of 5
Escape master movie.
2 out of 5
Team survival is tricky.
4 out of 5
Bioguru woman's Stonehenge drug binge unhinges into cryogenic desperation.
4.5 out of 5
Gargoyle boys and girls.
3.5 out of 5
Mermaid clone affair ends quite fishily.
4 out of 5
America losing, rock is dead, gay bar's an escape.
3.5 out of 5
Corporate anarchy watching brief blackout provides relative promotion.
4.5 out of 5
Cosmonaut crapout space station hitchhikers.
4 out of 5
Let them wear leather bikinis and crave recording deals.
4 out of 5
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This is simply a fantastic collection of the best stories of my favorite literary subgenre, the Cyberpunk Movement in the 1980s and early 1990s. While I may not like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, I am not ignorant when it comes to their importance in popularizing and shaping the genre. Also here are Rudy Rucker, the acting grandfather of the genre; and Pat Cadigan, the Queen of Cyberpunk (even though she had very little, if any, real competition).
While there are a couple newer Cyberpunk collections, The Ultimate Cyberpunk coming to mind, the very first is still the best. Not only are the stories fantastic, but the anthology didn't have to rely on a nostalgia effect, like those that are being published now.
A good introduction to the genre, as well as an essential item for one's collection.
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This book is a collection of cyberpunk stories assembled by Bruce Sterling. It is supposedly the definitive cyberpunk fiction collection. There are some really good stories in the book such as the Gernsback Continuum, Solstice, Freezone, Till Human Voices Wake Us, Stone Lives, and Mozart with Mirrorshades. These tales had advanced technological concepts and more importantly, good stories. The stories touched on gene engineering, time travel, cybernetics, and other popular cyberpunk themes. Some of the other stories were pretty interesting, but some just didn't seem to fit. For example, Tales of Houdini and Petra seemed out of place in this collection. Though they were both sci-fi tales, they didn't seem to be cyberpunk.
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