''Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology'' (1986) is a
cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech". It features futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberwa ...
anthology, edited by American writer
Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.
Sterling's first ...
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Contents
* "
The Gernsback Continuum" by
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his ear ...
* "Snake-Eyes" by
Tom Maddox
* "Rock On" by
Pat Cadigan
* "Tales of Houdini" by
Rudy Rucker
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (; born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known f ...
* "400 Boys" by
Marc Laidlaw
* "Solstice" by
James Patrick Kelly
* "Petra" by
Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American science fiction writer. His work covered themes of Interstellar_war, galactic conflict (''The Forge of God, Forge of God'' books), parallel universes (''The Way (Greg Bear ...
* "Till Human Voices Wake Us" by
Lewis Shiner
* "Freezone" by
John Shirley
John Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, noir fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, ''Wyatt in Wichita'', and ...
* "Stone Lives" by
Paul Di Filippo
* "
Red Star, Winter Orbit" by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
* "
Mozart in Mirrorshades" by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
References
External links
The book, downloadable in several formats
1986 anthologies
American short story collections
Cyberpunk short stories
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