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ISBN 0-936756-43-8 (US pbk), ISSN 0-093-95779 (US pbk)
anthology, short stories, poetry, poems, collage, cyberpunk, postmodern, slipstream, Barrington J.Bayley, J.G.Ballard, Hakim Bey, Bruce Boston, William S.Burroughs, Philip José Farmer, William Gibson, Ernest Hogan, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Bart Plantenga, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, Don Webb, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Amsterdam
Anthology edited by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson. Front cover art, Mike Saenz. Design, Sue Ann Harkey. Back cover art & design, Steve Jones.
"The Toshiba H-P Waldo" ad art by Mike Saenz;
Acknowledgements by Peter Lamborn Wilson;
Preface by Robert Anton Wilson;
"Metamorphosis No.89" by Don Webb,
"We See Things Differently" by Bruce Sterling
(short story... also contained in the collection Globalhead by Bruce Sterling, 1992),
"Portfolio" collages by Freddie Baer,
"America Comes" poem by Bruce Boston,
"Frankenstein Penis" by Ernest Hogan
(short story... followed by the sequel: "The Dracula Vagina"),
"Six Kinds of Darkness" excerpt from A Song Called Youth by John Shirley
(short story... also contained in the collection Heatseeker by John Shirley, 1989),
"On Eve of Physics Symposium, More Sub-Atomic Particles Found" by Nick Herbert,
"Burning Sky" by Rachel Pollack,
"Day" poem by Bob McGlynn,
"Rapture in Space" by Rudy Rucker
(short story, written in Lynchburg, Fall 1984... re-issued in the collection Transreal! by Rudy Rucker, WCS, 1991),
"Quent Wimpel Meets Bigfoot" by Kerry Thornley,
"Hippie Hat Brain Parasite" by William Gibson,
"The Great Escape" by Sol Yurick,
"Portfolio" collages by James Koehnline,
"Jane Fonda's Augmentation Mammoplasty" by J.G.Ballard,
"Report on an Unidentified Space Station" by J.G.Ballard
(originally published in the magazine City Limits , December 1982),
"Solitons" by Paul Di Filippo,
"Is This True? Well, Yes and No" by Sharon Gannon (text) and David Life (collage),
"Genocide" by Richard Kadrey,
"The Antarctic Autonomous Zone: A Science-Fiction Story" poem by Hakim Bey,
"Vile Dry Claws of the Toucan" by Ian Watson,
"Shed His Grace" by Michael Blumlein,
"All Right, Everybody on the Floor" by Thom Metzger,
"The Gene Drain" by Lewis Shiner,
"The CIA Reporter" by William S.Burroughs,
"The New Boy" by William S.Burroughs,
"Another Brush with the Fuzz" by Daniel Pearlman,
"You Can't Go Home Again" by Ron Kolm,
"Georgie and the Giant Shit" by Greg Gibson,
"Delphic (Projection #5)" poem by Lorraine Schein,
"The Sex Club" by T.L.Parkinson,
"Your Style Guide -- Use It Wisely" by Marc Laidlaw,
"Maslow, Sheldrake, and the Peak Experience" by Colin Wilson,
"Amsterdam Diary" by Robert Sheckley,
"I Was A Teen-Age Genetic Engineer" by Denise Angela Shawl,
"Chapter One, The Novel" by Luke McGuff,
"Portfolio" collages by Richard Kadrey,
"St.Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye" by Philip José Farmer,
"Gnosis Knows Best" by Hugh Fox,
"The Beer Mystic's Last Day on the Planet" by Bart Plantenga
(short story... excerpt from Confessions of a Beer Mystic by Bart Plantenga, 19??... check his bARTpAGE website),
"Visit Port Watson!" by Anonymous
(non-fiction?... utopia?),
"Lord of Infinite Diversions" by t.winter-damon,
"Project Parameters in Cherry Valley by the Testicles" by Robert Anton Wilson,
"The Scepter of Praetorius" by Rev.Ivan Stang,
"Louie, Louie" by Jacob Rabinowitz,
"Cling to the Curvature!" by Barrington J.Bayley
(short story... check the Barrington J.Bayley Homepage maintained by Juha Lindroos).
"A good overall sampler of the cyberpunk and postmodern scene. I found the anonymously-penned piece on Port Watson especially intriguing." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Recommended.