Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

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Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between the internet, bioengineering, and international politics, its influence saturating entertainment and the mass media. Drawing on the traditions of the pioneering cyberpunk manifesto, Mirrorshades, each story delves into the gritty world of technological change. Legendary Mirrorshades editor and contributor Bruce Sterling is back, alongside such cutting-edge writers as Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Lethem, Gwyneth Jones, Hal Duncan, Charles Stross, and Pat Cadigan. With a daring introduction from James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, editors of the controversial Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, this collection is an exhilarating snapshot of a vibrant literary movement.

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Taking the genre to the next level.

Jacob Weisman

There has never been any time in the last twelve to thirteen years where we have ever stopped changing or growing. (Jacob Weisman, publisher, Tachyon Publications, in an interview on SF Site)

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Tangent

Cyberpunk has grown past its rebel stage and is now not only capable of dazzling us with surfaces but also of speaking of the human condition.

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Mind-altering . . . every story in the bunch is a knockout.

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Cyberpunk is dead. Long live post-cyberpunk! The editors attempt to foment, or at least describe, a new revolution, in contrast with classic 1980s cyberpunk as exemplified by Bruce Sterling's innovative anthology Mirrorshades. In the first of 16 tales, Bruce Sterling's "Bicycle Repairman," a ninja is dispatched by the artificial intelligence controlling a brain-dead senator. Gwyneth Jones shows us virtual reality as therapy, while Jonathan Lethem delivers a nightmarish tale modeled on Horace McCoy's novel They Shoot Horses Don't They? Greg Egan rails against medical big business's greed. In Pat Cadigan's post-collapse scenario, attempts to recreate past glories succeed in getting the details wrong. William Gibson's series of descriptive non-narratives recalls Brian W. Aldiss's Report on Probability A. David Marusek ponders the ethical conundrums posed by the existence of virtual people. Walter Jon Williams's characters horrifyingly attempt to recreate their family in virtual reality. Michael Swanwick's swindlers confront the multibrained, century-old Queen of England. Charles Stross's KGB boss is an AI that wants to defect. Paul Di Filippo extracts comedy from old film noir. Elsewhere: Elizabeth Bear writes about New Orleans; Paolo Bacigalupi contributes an "agri-punk" story; Mary Rosenblum introduces a cyberpunk PI; and Cory Doctorow borrows from his recent collection, Overlocked. Individually the stories are OK, if lacking originality, despite Kelly's and Kessel's lumbering efforts to talk up the birth of a new movement. Too, the accompanying, introductory editors' notes frequently give away more than necessary, and the story postscripts, extracts of 1980s correspondence between Kesseland Sterling, seem merely quaint and self-consciously literary. Much ado, little going on.

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ISBN-13: 9781892391537
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 1,161,175
Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

James Patrick Kelly is the winner of two Hugo Awards and is the author of Burn, Think Like a Dinosaur, and Wildlife. He is a columnist for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and serves as chair of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire. John Kessel is a Nebula, Sturgeon, Tiptree, and Locus award winner and the author of Corrupting Dr. Nice, Good News from Outer Space, and The Pure Product. He teaches science fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University and his criticism has appeared in Foundation, Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Age. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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