Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

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At this point, Marie Antoinette arrives, shouting angrily at Mozart, who had promised that if she led Rice into the trap, he would obtain a Green Card for her. Their allegiance to Eighties culture has marked them as a group — as a new movement in science fiction. The heavy noir influence worked for me, but it may well be that I read less sf than you, in which case it could be that I’ve just seen it less.

They were standing beside their car, an aluminum avocado with a central shark-fin rudder jutting up from its spine and smooth black tires like a child’s toy.The Thirties had seen the first generation of American industrial designers; until the Thirties, all pencil sharpeners had looked like pencil sharpeners—your basic Victorian mechanism, perhaps with a curlicue of decorative trim. The books on Thirties design were in the trunk; one of them contained sketches of an idealized city that drew on Metropolis and Things to Come, but squared everything, soaring up through an architect’s perfect clouds to zeppelin docks and mad neon spires.

M i r r o r s h a d e s, along with spectacles, are the only two items that grant corrected vision, which corrects the short-distance vision caused by Myopia.

Wearing a pair of m i r r o r s h a d e s grants +1 Ego and provides protection against the flash effects caused by f l a s h b a n g g r e n a d es. Interzone, the most radical periodical in science fiction today, has already been mentioned; its editorial cadre deserves a second thanks. Maybe its because my tastes have moved very far from cyberpunk these days, or maybe its a genre thats repeating itself. Kihn combed his thinning blond hair and went off to hear what They had had to say over the radar range lately, and I drew the curtains in my room and lay down in air-conditioned darkness to worry about it. Not only the black ones worn by Trinity and Neo, but especially the mirrored round shades worn by Morpheus.

Bruce Sterling's "Mirrorshades" represents the first anthology of the nascent movement known as cyberpunk.Mirrorshades offers a host of short stories that not only give a good read but will acquaint you with the very beginnings of the cyberpunk genre. A friend actually posed me the question last night of what the easiest entry might be for a non-scifi fan into the cyberpunk world in particular.

While I’m not bad at it, I’m not exactly the best, either, and this poor guy strained my Nikon’s credibility. The Cyberpunk Anthology the result, it is both broad in scope yet delimits the idea of what cyberpunk, or at least can be.

A red rose was tattooed against the pale skin on her left shoulder, its stem curving down between her bare breasts, where a thorn drew a teardrop of blood. Aleph had observed George Jordan’s arrival, his tossing on his bunk, his interview with Charley Hughes. Mirrorshades should give readers new to Movement writing a broad introduction to cyberpunk's tenets themes, and topics. I shot one in San Jose an hour before the bulldozers arrived and drove right through the structural truth of plaster and lathing and cheap concrete. In fact, Molly has sealed her eye sockets with vision-enhancing mirrored lenses that require an adaptation of her tear ducts: they were re-routed to her mouth, so she can either spit or swallow the tears whenever they come.