Rewired

by James Patrick Kelly
Rewired

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<P>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.</P>
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<P>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.</P>

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