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.
