Ebook: Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution

Cyberpunk has brought us films like Blade Runner, Tron, and The Matrix, and it has brought us now-classic novels like Snow Crash and Neuromancer. It continues to be a powerful theme in contemporary literature as writers imagine a gritty, dark, wild, and wicked future where body modification, seedy elements, omniscient corporations, and a few down-luck anti-heroes are always having it out. Inside the covers of this book, readers find stories by the best and the finest cyberpunk writers'from foundational authors like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson to new voices like Cory Doctorow'all of whom write with the fire and zeal that powers the best cyberpunk writing. Here are stories about society gone wrong and society saved, about soulless humans and soulful machines, about futures worth fighting for and futures that do nothing but kill. Welcome to your cyberpunk world. Welcome to your cyberpunk world.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Johnny Mnemonic; Mozart in Mirrorshades; Interview with the Crab; El Pepenador; Down and Out in the Year 2000; Getting to Know You; User-Centric; The Blog at the End of the World; Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars; Rock On; Blue Clay Blues; The Lost Technique of Blackmail; Soldier, Sailor; The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics; Mr. Boy; Wolves of the Plateau; The Nostalgist; Life in the Anthropocene; When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.