num_pages: 432
description: Before email before 'the web' before hackers and GPS and sexting before titanium implants before Google Goggles before Siri and before each and every one of us carried a computer in our pockets there was cyberpunk and science fiction was never the same. Cyberpunk writers serious smart and courageous in the face of change exposed the naivet of a society rushing headlong into technological unknowns. Technology could not save us they argued and it might in fact ruin us. Now thirty years after The Movement party-crashed the science fiction scene the cyberpunk reality has largely come to be. The future they imagined is here.Contents: * Introduction (Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware Software Wetware Revolution and Evolution)  essay by Victoria Blake * Johnny Mnemonic (1981) / short story by William Gibson * Mozart in Mirrorshades (1985) / short story by Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling * Interview with the Crab (2005) / short fiction by Jonathan Lethem * El Pepenador / short fiction by Benjamin Parzybok * Down and Out in the Year 2000 (1986) / short story by Kim Stanley Robinson * Getting to Know You [North American Future] (1997) / novelette by David Marusek * User-Centric (1999) / short story by Bruce Sterling * The Blog at the End of the World (2008) / short story by Paul Tremblay * Memories of Moments Bright as Falling Stars (2006) / short story by Cat Rambo * Rock On (1984) / short story by Pat Cadigan * Blue Clay Blues (1992) / novelette by Gwyneth Jones * The Lost Technique of Blackmail (2009) / short fiction by Mark Teppo * Fall of the House of Escher / short fiction by Greg Bear (variant of The Fall of the House of Escher 1996) * Soldier Sailor (1990) / short story by Lewis Shiner * The Nostalgist (2009) / short story by Daniel H. Wilson * The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics (1982) / short story by Rudy Rucker * Mr. Boy (1990) / novella by James Patrick Kelly * Wolves of the Plateau (1988) / short story by John Shirley * Life in the Anthropocene (2010) / short story by Paul Di Filippo * When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006) / novelette by Cory Doctorow.
language: English
title: Cyberpunk: The Big Book of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution
publisher: Underland Press