Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology was the book that woke me up to what science fiction could be.

Davis-Floyd mentions Stephen Hawking as an example of a person who is still active and making important contributions to astrophysics while taking advantage of a human-machine symbiosis. A one-off with pure roots of rebellion--surely how Sterling wanted to cap the collection by putting the 'punk' in 'cyberpunk'.

Which made a certain kind of sense, because the most successful American designers had been recruited from the ranks of Broadway theater designers.

The online zines like Clarkesworld, Fantasy and Strange Horizons all have good things, and Asimovs and Weird Tales often have interesting stuff.There’s a British obsession with the more baroque elements of American pop culture, something like the weird cowboys-and-Indians fetish of the West Germans or the aberrant French hunger for old Jerry Lewis films.

Hoped it wouldn’t happen again, but it did, and this time I went to Walter Reed and said, ‘Hey folks, I’m having these episodes. In addition, m i r r o r s h a d e s have a hidden 1% chance to refract light-based attacks with -60 to +60 degree variance. Later he realized this was a mistake—he was still taking antinausea pills (USE CAUTION IN OPERATING MACHINERY). Innis pushed off and swooped across, grabbing the man as he passed, taking them both to the opposite wall and kicking to carom them outward.Climb aboard Sterling’s speculative roller coaster; a dazzling, eye opening ride through the modern world . To get the mirrored effect, brands started using different materials and sometimes even metals when covering the lenses.