The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin
The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin
English | 2023 | Science Fiction
A genre-defining—and redefining—collection of the boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient speculative fiction, featuring stories from all over the globe.
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Almost forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began Neuromancer—and a movement that would change the face of science fiction.
Award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five countries that both establish and subvert the classic cyberpunk tropes and aesthetic—from gritty, near-future noir to pulse-pounding action. Urban rebels undermine monolithic corporate overlords. Daring heists are conducted through back alleys and the darkest parts of the online world. There’s dangerous new technology, cybernetic enhancements, scheming AI, corporate mercenaries, improbable weapons, and roguish hackers. These tales examine the near-now, extrapolating the most provocative trends into fascinating and plausible futures.
We live in an increasingly cyberpunk world—packed with complex technologies and globalized social trends. A world so bizarre that even futurists couldn’t explain it—though many authors in this book have come closer than most. As both an introduction to the genre and the perfect compendium for the lifelong fan, The Big Book of Cyberpunk offers a hundred ways to understand where we are and where we’re going.
Contributors: James Tiptree Jr., Pat Cadigan, John Shirley, Phillip Mann, George Alec Effinger, Gwyneth Jones, Charles Stross, Richard Kadrey, Cat Rambo, Justina Robson, Karen Heuler, Christian Kirtchev, Jean Rabe, Jeff Noon, Sunny Moraine, K. C. Alexander, Neon Yang, Jean-Marc Ligny, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, J. P. Smythe, Molly Tanzer, Aleš Kot, Isabel Fall, Samuel R. Delany, Bruce Bethke, Craig Padawer, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Mason, Greg Egan, Harry Polkinhorn, Paul J. McAuley, James Lovegrove, Gerardo Horacio Porcayo, Neal Stephenson, Jeffrey Thomas, Cory Doctorow, Nick Mamatas, Lauren Beukes, Yun Ko-eun, Maurice Broaddus, Madeline Ashby, Steven S. Long, Tim Maughan, Ryuko Azuma, Ken Liu, Minister Faust, Arthur Liu, Fritz Leiber, Nancy Kress, William Gibson and Michael Swanwick, Russell Blackford, Candas Jane Dorsey, Paul Di Filippo, Nicholas Royle, Kim Newman, Pepe Rojo, Steve Beard, Yasser Abdellatif, Suzanne Church, Zedeck Siew, Cassandra Khaw, E. J. Swift, Oliver Langmead, Omar Robert Hamilton, M. Lopes da Silva, Marie Vibbert, Corey J. White, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Beth Cato, Erica Satifka, Sam J. Miller, Philip K. Dick, Misha, Eileen Gunn, Nisi Shawl, Lewis Shiner, Bruce Sterling, Victor Pelevin, Bef, David Langford, Myra Çakan, John Kessel, Ken MacLeod, Taiyo Fujii, T. R. Napper, Khalid Kaki, Brandon O’Brien, Ganzeer, Fabio Fernandes, Rudy Rucker, Wole Talabi, Michael Moss, Mandisi Nkomo, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, K. A. Teryna, Janelle Monáe and Alaya Dawn Johnson, Greg Bear, Bruce Sterling and Paul Di Filippo, Jacques Barcia, Paul Graham Raven, Naomi Kritzer, Yurei Raita, Saad Hossain, Vauhini Vara
