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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

by James Patrick Kelly (Editor), John Kessel (Editor)

Other authors: Paolo Bacigalupi (Contributor), Elizabeth Bear (Contributor), Pat Cadigan (Contributor), Paul Di Filippo (Contributor), Cory Doctorow (Cover artist)12 more, Greg Egan (Contributor), William Gibson (Contributor), Gwyneth Jones (Contributor), John Kessel (Introduction), Jonathan Lethem (Contributor), David Marusek (Contributor), Mary Rosenblum (Contributor), Christopher Rowe (Contributor), Bruce Sterling (Contributor), Charles Stross (Contributor), Michael Swanwick (Contributor), Walter Jon Williams (Contributor)

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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. Time to stop flipping the channel. 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. Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology) 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, Rewired is the first anthology to define and capture the crackling excitement of the post-cyberpunks. From the grittiness of Mirrorshades to the Singularity and beyond, it's time to revive the revolution.… (more)
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Cyberpunk is one of those subgenres that feels more and more accurate these days. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. Depends on my mood towards the world at the time. But this is a good collection. My favorites were “The Dog Said Bow Wow” and “The Voluntary State.” YMMV. ( )
  Jon_Hansen | May 14, 2023 |
Honestly, I didn't enjoy this as much as I wanted to. I don't know if the editor was going for a literary analysis or something, but the reprinted letters got tedious and unread almost immediately.

Bruce Sterling - Bicycle Repairman - 4 Stars
Gwyneth Jones - Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - 2
Jonathan Lethem - How We Got in Town and out Again - 5
Greg Egan - Yeyuka - 5
Pat Cadigan - The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry with a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original Audience - 1
William Gibson - Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City - 1
David Marusek - The Wedding Album - 5
Walter Jon Williams - Daddy’s World - 5
Michael Swanwick - The Dog Said Bow-Wow - 4
Charles Stross - Lobsters - 1
Paul Di Filippo - What’s Up, Tiger Lily? - 5
Christopher Rowe - The Voluntary State - 5
Elizabeth Bear - Two Dreams on Trains - 4
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Calorie Man - 3
Mary Rosenblum - Search Engine - 3
Cory Doctorow - When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - 4

Average: 3.5. Weighted: 3.8, rounded up to 4 stars ( )
  KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |
Amazing compilation. Enjoyed every story and every page. ( )
  jplana | Feb 22, 2021 |
Pretty good collection!

"Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling (****)
"Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" by Gwyneth Jones (****)
"How We Got in Town and Out Again" by Jonathan Lethem (***)
"Yeyuka" by Greg Egan (****)
"The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry With a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original Audience" by Pat Cadigan (*)
"Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" by William Gibson (**)
"The Wedding Album" by David Marusek (*****)
"Daddy’s World" by Walter Jon Williams (****)
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick (**)
"Lobsters " by Charles Stross (****)
"What’s Up, Tiger Lily" by Paul Di Filippo (**)
"The Voluntary State” by Christopher Rowe (**)
"Two Dreams on a Train” by Elizabeth Bear (****)
"The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi (***)
"Search Engine” by Mary Rosenblum (****)
"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” by Cory Doctorow (****) ( )
  igorken | Feb 25, 2018 |
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New or old, these stories seemed to follow some hidden gradient, towards greater concentrations of heart and humanism.
added by lampbane | editBoing Boing, Cory Doctorow (Nov 14, 2007)
 

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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Kelly, James PatrickEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kessel, JohnEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Bacigalupi, PaoloContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bear, ElizabethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cadigan, PatContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Di Filippo, PaulContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Doctorow, CoryCover artistsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Egan, GregContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gibson, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jones, GwynethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kessel, JohnIntroductionsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lethem, JonathanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Marusek, DavidContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rosenblum, MaryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rowe, ChristopherContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sterling, BruceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stross, CharlesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Swanwick, MichaelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Williams, Walter JonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Nason, PattyCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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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. Time to stop flipping the channel. 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. Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology) 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, Rewired is the first anthology to define and capture the crackling excitement of the post-cyberpunks. From the grittiness of Mirrorshades to the Singularity and beyond, it's time to revive the revolution.

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