ISBN: 1892391600 9781892391605

Category: Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies

Page count: 424

Cyberpunk is dead. The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out shades. Once radical, cyberpunk is now nothing more than a brand.<br><br>Time to stop flipping the channel.<br><br>These sixteen extreme stories reveal a government ninja routed by a bicycle repairman, the inventor of digitized paper hijacked by his college crush, a dead boy trapped in a warped storybook paradise, and the queen of England attacked with the deadliest of forbidden technology: a working modem. You’ll meet Manfred Macx, renegade meme-broker, Red Sonja, virtual reality sex-goddess, and Felix, humble sys-admin and post-apocalyptic hero.<br><br>Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (<i>Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology</i>) have united cyberpunk visionaries William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan with the new post-cyberpunk vanguard, including Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Jonathan Lethem. Including a canon-establishing introduction and excerpts from a hotly contested online debate, <i>Rewired</i> is the first anthology to define and capture the crackling excitement of the post-cyberpunks.<br><br>From the grittiness of <i>Mirrorshades</i> to the Singularity and beyond, it’s time to revive the revolution.