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ISBN 0-441-53382-5 (US pbk),,, ISBN 0-586-08782-6 (UK pbk)
short stories, anthology, science fiction, cyberpunk, William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Tom Maddox, Rudy Rucker, Paul Di Filippo, Greg Bear, James Patrick Kelly
Edited by Bruce Sterling.
"The Gernsback Continuum" William Gibson
(also contained in: Burning Chrome ),
"Snake-Eyes" Tom Maddox,
"Rock On" Pat Cadigan
(also contained in: Patterns ; Storming The Reality Studio edited by Larry McCaffery; Light Years and Dark edited by Michael Bishop; and is an excerpt from her novel Synners ),
"Tales of Houdini" Rudy Rucker,
"400 Boys" Marc Laidlaw,
"Solstice" James Patrick Kelly,
"Petra" Greg Bear,
"Till Human Voices Wake Us" Lewis Shiner,
"Freezone" John Shirley,
"Stone Lives" Paul Di Filippo,
"Red Star, Winter Orbit" Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
(also contained in: Burning Chrome ),
"Mozart in Mirrorshades" Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner.
"The first anthology of cyberpunk authors. The writers in this collection can be considered as the first wave of cyberpunk fiction. Since those halcyon days, many more authors have tripped the silicon floorboards. Like jazz or reggae, cyberpunk has grown beyond itself yet contains its root brainstem. Read it, you'll need the data to survive.
"By the way, the first British paperback edition features a brilliant cover design. Deserves to be noticed. Worthy of a graphics award. [the reissue has been re-designed, and, in my opinion, has lost some of the impact.]" --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Highly recommended.