Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

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

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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.

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Unmemorable and dated, unfortunately. I promptly bookcrossed & released it.

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

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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.

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