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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

by Bruce Sterling (Editor), William Gibson, Paul Di Filippo, Lewis Shiner, Tom Maddox, Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), Rudy Rucker, Marc Laidlaw (Goodreads Author) , more…

3.95 · Rating details · 7,422 Ratings · 110 Reviews

With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection.

Contents:
The Gernsback Continuum (1981) by William Gibson
Snake-Eyes (1986) by Tom Maddox
Rock On (1984) by Pat Cadigan
Tales of Houdini (198 ...more

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Published July 1st 1988 by Ace (first published 1986)

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Oct 07, 2007 Evan rated it liked it

Here the mediocre and the barely readable rub shoulders with pop genius.

The lesser cyberpunks come across like caffeinated 1950s squares desperately trying to sound like the beatniks they've heard so much about. Want some holodrugs to go with your cyberslang, daddy-o!!?

The greats have a singular ease of style and taste for the bizarre that gives you a whiff of the 80s, but the colors are still bright after twenty years.

Flawed, but essential.

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Aug 16, 2013 Rose rated it really liked it

Shelves: humor, sci-fi, fantasy, time-travel, science, technology

Initial reaction: Probably 3.5 stars. There are some really interesting and good stories in the mix included here, and only a few that didn't really strike me all that well, whether it was the fact some of them were random and not necessarily what I would term cyberpunk, or that some of them seemed a little dated. I did appreciate Sterling's introduction on Cyberpunk as a genre overall, and I thought it was a good collection overall. Some of the authors I'm very familiar with their work, while o ...more

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Jul 18, 2009 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it liked it

Shelves: short-stories, sci-fi-fantasy, own, speed-date-3, nanoreadmo-2013, read2014, bedside, antho

Perhaps looking back at cyberpunk from 2014, it is impossible to fully grasp what the authors at the beginning of that movement were truly about. We have Bruce Sterling's intro of this anthology to help us out, including other names for the movement at the time - Outlaw Technologists, Eighties Wave, Radical Hard SF, and others. Maybe we just needed to call it the Weird at the time, and in each decade assign different authors to that category.

When I read this anthology I struggle to place each s ...more

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Jun 27, 2007 Rob rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: cyberpunk n00bs and other scifi lovers

Shelves: all-time-favorites, bedside, own, anthology, science-fiction

A battered copy lives in my nightstand at all times. Between novels, I always come back to this, flipping through the pages until a word catches my eye. Such a diversity of talent, mixed together quite well here.

Rated Individually:
• "The Gernsback Continuum" (William Gibson) ★★★★★
• "Snake-Eyes" (Tom Maddox) ★★★★
• "Rock On" (Pat Cadigan) ★★★★
• "Tales of Houdini" (Rudy Rucker) ★★★★★
• "400 Boys" (Marc Laidlaw) ★★★★★
• "Solstice" (James Patrick Kelly) ★★★★
• "Petra" (Greg Bear) ★★★★★
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Feb 24, 2017 Olethros rated it liked it · review of another edition

-Cyberpunk en el mayor sentido posible del subgénero literario.-

Género. Relatos.

Lo que nos cuenta. Con nota preliminar de Andoni Alonso e Iñaki Arzoz, y con prólogo de Bruce Sterling, ambos pequeños ensayos de lo que significó (y significa) el movimiento Cyberpunk, recopilación de trabajos cortos que exploran distintas vertientes de esa corriente que trajo ideas frescas a la Ciencia ficción hace algo más de treinta años y que es mucho más extensa que implantes, virtualidad, delincuencia y corpor ...more

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Feb 16, 2015 D.M. Dutcher rated it did not like it

Shelves: short-stories

Incredibly dated and barely even cyberpunk.

Brief short story collection from the early days of cyberpunk, with some authors that you'd consider it (Gibson, Cadigan, Rucker, Sterling) and some you wouldn't (Greg Bear.) The stories themselves are bad, as many don't even bother with computers or the internet at all, and come across as a weird "rock and roll" version of New Wave SF. The focus on drugs seems naïve in a world where people deal with mood-altering drugs to medicate mental issues on a d ...more

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Nov 02, 2012 Jesse rated it liked it

A very mixed bag. This probably counts as essential reading for fans of cyberpunk, but only some of the stories qualify, genre-wise. However, the other stories fit in in terms of era. They are more interesting academically, as a glimpse into what else was going on in literary sci fi in the early 80's.

Of special note is that the 2 Gibson stories printed here were also included in Burning Chrome, so if you, like me, initially picked this us as a Gibson completist, you will be a little disappointed ...more

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Jul 22, 2010 Andrew rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantastic, genre, literary, scientific

Cyberpunk used to mean so much more than crazy future clothes, oppressive corporate regimes, and cybernetic enhancements, but these days the word mostly conjures up Gibsonian dystopias. It's interesting to read a broader range of stories from the time, selected by people who were part of 'the Movement', but it might be even more interesting to read Bruce Sterling talk about himself in the third person when he describes prominent figures of cyberpunk. Amusing!

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Aug 27, 2008 Nick Black rated it it was ok

The best story in here is William Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum", which anyone who cares already has in Burning Chrome. The rest is largely trash.

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Sep 25, 2016 Nicholas Avedon rated it liked it

Bastante irregular. Algunos relatos son malos y no entiendo que hacen en una compilación ciberpunk y otros bastante buenos, el que más destaca es el de "Zona libre" de Shirley, por su prosa y su innovación. Escribí una crítica mas completa en mi blog sobre este relato: https://www.nicholasavedon.com/zona-l...

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Jun 18, 2012 Jesús Redondo Menéndez rated it it was amazing

Una breve reflexión sobre las antologías:
Por lo general nunca he tenido una buena predisposición hacia ellas, a no ser que fueran del mismo autor, ya que siempre me he quedado insatisfecho por lo breves de los relatos... y siempre he acabado disfrutando mucho de ellas.
Es cierto que hay piezas que no terminan de llenarte, pero si la selección está bien hecha, suelen ser las menos, y a cambio tienes un ramillete muy amplio de ejercicios narrativos que seguramente no conocías. Eso es lo que me ha v

Una breve reflexión sobre ESTA antología:
La breve presentación de cada autor en el contexto del género (el cyberpunk) me parece genial, pues te da un poco de perspectiva de lo que puedes esperar de él, no vas "a ciegas". Me ha resultado muy útil, pues como dije anteriormente, casi no conocía a ninguno de los autores.
La selección de los relatos me parece muy acertada, pues cubre un abanico amplísimo de opciones dentro del cyberpunk y la ciencia ficción: la mezcla de lo cibernético con lo biológico, viaje en el tiempo, las drogas como medio de ampliación de los límites perceptivos, etc.
También me ha gustado que el background de los autores fuera también tan variopinto: desde el archiconocido Gibson (autor de Neuromante o Conde Cero, entre otras), de enorme influencia en el género cyberpunk, sobre todo en la estética, pasando por los polifacéticos Pat Cadigan o John Shirley (ambos músicos), que mezclan el rock con la ciencia ficción, hasta la desoladora narrativa de Lewis Shiner, que aprovecha su rico bagaje cultural para plantearnos relatos fronterizos entre la fantasía, el horror y la ciencia ficción...

Mis relatos favoritos:
-Ojos de serpiente, de Tom Maddox, por la rica recreación de los estados mentales del protagonista al coquetear con las drogas psicotrópicas y sus alteraciones neutrales.
-Petra, de Greg Bear, por montar un mundo de fantasía creíble en un cosmos muy reducido, apoyándose en figuras de la antropología religiosa conocidas por todo el mundo, y aprovecharla para ensayar varios de los prejuicios morales en ese nuevo escenario de una forma bastante original.
-Zona Libre de John Shirley, por su excelente ambientación de lo que una novela cyberpunk requiere, junto con toda una estética rockera y las contradicciones que envuelven la vida de una estrella venida a menos.
-Stove vive, de Pau di Filippo, por el misterio con el que es introducido el personaje principal dentro de un mundo lleno de contrastes, escondiendo perfectamente su característica principal, aunque siempre la hemos tenido delante. Soberbio.

¿La recomendaría?
Sin ninguna duda. No es una obra de actualidad, está claro, pues se encuadra en los 80's/90's, que ya han quedado lejos, pero sí es una obra que remueve todos los ingredientes del cóctel que fue el cyberpunk y te ofrece la posibilidad de retomar el género y releer ideas que han sido de gran influencia en la ciencia ficción posterior.

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Mar 05, 2009 Oscar rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: míos, ciencia-ficción, cyberpunk, antología-recopilación

‘Mirrorshades: Una antología cyberpunk’ (Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, 1986), es una recopilación de relatos a cargo de Bruce Sterling, que intenta ser una representación de este subgénero de la ciencia ficción (pequeña definición de cyberpunk: normalmente transcurre en un futuro cercano, distópico, dominado por megacorporaciones, donde se aúnan personajes marginales con alta tecnología, en una ambiente próximo al género negro, todo ello bajo una estética que recuerda a la película ‘Bla ...more

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Jan 10, 2013 El Zuco rated it really liked it

Just started the book but already love it... why haven't I been reading cyberpunk my whole life? The excellent first short story by Gibson, "Gernsback Continuum," narrates the story of a contract photographer hired to document the vestiges of 1930's US futurism, but also somehow manages to function as an abbreviated history of US modernism in the twentieth century and a commentary on the history of science fiction whose negativity suggests a cyberpunk vision in confronting the present (early 198 ...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Ninja Pigeon rated it really liked it

Contains many of my favorite examples of cyberpunk fiction. From Mozart in Mirrorshades, to the WW1 flight combat sim done in 3D Virtual Reality, this anthology is a collection of many amazing writers and their stories. All of them have stuck with me for the last 15+ years and influenced many of my own writing, and movie decisions. A must read for any beginner to the sci-fi and specifically cyberpunk genre. Also of note - my iPad doesn't try to correct the word "cyberpunk". Kudos to Gibson and ...more

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Oct 01, 2016 Ernesto I. Ramirez rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fiction, cyberpunk

Wonderful look into the old cyberpunk genre, some stories have aged pretty well, in particular I loved "Mozart in Mirrorshades" its a great political comment.

I had to hear it twice to get all the details, but I loved the storytelling.

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Jul 12, 2017 John Newman rated it liked it

A bit uneven, but some a couple of standouts. I really liked the old old Gibson story - reminds me of his newer stuff (although its not particularly cyberpunk). The title piece, by Sterling & Shiner (I think) - "Mozart in Mirrorshades" - is a fun little piece on time travel, colonialism, and Mozart as punk rock.

Its definitely worth picking up a used copy.

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May 04, 2017 Mats Svensson rated it did not like it

Empty vapid trash.
Very poor quality stories.
This did *not* age well.

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Aug 22, 2013 Michaelx rated it liked it

When I picked up 'Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology' I was hoping for an anthology of cyberpunk. That was not exactly what I got. Maybe my understanding of the cyberpunk genre is wrong, and it was just my ignorant expectations that were disappointed. Cyberpunk, I thought, was the genre 'Neuromancer' belonged to. I saw Bruce Sterling and William Gibson on the cover, saw it's neon colours and pixelated design and made, what I considered to be at the time, safe assumptions. They were wrong.

Of t When I picked up 'Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology' I was hoping for an anthology of cyberpunk. That was not exactly what I got. Maybe my understanding of the cyberpunk genre is wrong, and it was just my ignorant expectations that were disappointed. Cyberpunk, I thought, was the genre 'Neuromancer' belonged to. I saw Bruce Sterling and William Gibson on the cover, saw it's neon colours and pixelated design and made, what I considered to be at the time, safe assumptions. They were wrong.

Of the thirteen stories, four and a half - maybe five - are what I consider cyberpunk. The others were just science fiction. '400 Boys' is a post-apocalyptic tale in which various street gangs are battling for territory - cyberpunk themes, yes, but not necessarily cyberpunk at all. I'd've expected a story like this in a compendium of post-apocalyptic fiction, but that's not what Mirrorshades was meant to be. I enjoyed '400 Boys' a lot. My complaint isn't that the stories are bad - though I didn't enjoy some - but that they do not fit the genre. 'Solstice' - one of my favourite stories in the book - is about a drug artist. It is coloured with the cyberpunk palette. Yet it isn't really cyberpunk. Rather, the main character seems like someone we might meet in a cyberpunk novel, just a side character whom the main character goes to see, whom the actual cyberpunk interacts with.

And then there are some (Tales of Houdini, Petra, Till Human Voices Wake Us) that miss the mark completely, that shouldn't have a place in a cyberpunk collection.

In Mirrorshades we are introduced to a bunch of cyberpunk-esque themes (drugs, genetic engineering, cybernetics, etc), but these are just elements; they aren't intrinsically cyberpunk, not for cyberpunk's exclusive use. It's what the author does with these elements that makes a cyberpunk novel. It's Gibson's particular use of cybernetics in Neuromancer that creates the cyberpunk atmosphere. It seems that this is a book of raw materials, not just for cyberpunk but for a range of science fiction. That's not what I was looking for when I picked up Mirrorshades, which is why I only gave it three stars. Some of the stories in it - the ones that aren't cyberpunk - are actually really good - I mentioned 400 Boys and Solstice, and also 'Red Star, Winter Orbit' and Mozart in Mirrorshades' are great reads.

A bit on the more cyberpunk stories. While reading 'Freezone' my first thought was that it was the inspiration for the Raft in Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'. Regarding 'Red Star, Winter Orbit', I would like to read a novel that starts exactly where it ends. The story itself I thought was not bad, but what happens next is much more of interest to me, is much more cyberpunk. I thought 'Mozart in Mirrorshades' was stupid at the beginning - I don't like anachronisms; they are too cheap, too easy. However, by the end I was really enjoying it.

To wrap up, you'll get a few cyberpunk stories and many cyberpunk themes if you read Mirrorshades. If you're interested in the outer-circle of cyberpunk, this book is probably for you. But if you're interested in cyberpunk - like I am - I suggest putting this off and just going for something by William Gibson.
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Oct 10, 2012 Marko rated it really liked it

Shelves: sf-f

3.5 stars. A collection of stories, mixing cyberpunk with sci-fi and sometimes outright fantasy. Most of the stories are OK (3 stars), some are good (4), and two are really, really great (full 5 stars).

Mirrorshades is supposed to be a cyberpunk anthology, but contains several stories which are decisevly not so. After the initial dissapointment this turns out to be not a bad thing, as some of them are quite good. Overall, the book was enjoyable and offers a very nice view of the beginnings of the 3.5 stars. A collection of stories, mixing cyberpunk with sci-fi and sometimes outright fantasy. Most of the stories are OK (3 stars), some are good (4), and two are really, really great (full 5 stars).

Mirrorshades is supposed to be a cyberpunk anthology, but contains several stories which are decisevly not so. After the initial dissapointment this turns out to be not a bad thing, as some of them are quite good. Overall, the book was enjoyable and offers a very nice view of the beginnings of the genre, with all the amusing anachronicities (tape recorders, giant CRT computers, etc.).

Among the stories, there are four that I have to mention separately.

Rock On, by Pat Cadigan. I wasn't prepared to be so blown away by a story like I was with this one. I've never read anything from Cadigan before, and after finishing Rock On, I now have a wish to read her entire opus. This was one of the stories where upon finishing it, I had to put the book down and just let all the impressions float for a time and settle before jumping to the next one (something that doesn't happen to me often). An awesome, awesome work.

Solstice by James Patrick Kelly. What I liked about this anthology very much is that for a change (from the usual hard-boiled detectives, rebels, gang members), it gave us perspective of a cyberpunk future from the viewpoints of some unlikely heroes. Musicians, artists, scientist. Solstice describes in a way that rings true to a non-user the effects of psychadelics, and the life of a professional drug designer. Drugs of various nature beign one of the staples of cyberpunk, it's great to see how they may be created and what happens to the people whose job is to do just that.

Petra by Greg Bear. Not a cyberpunk by a long shot, whatever the editor says, but boy oh boy is this an awesome story. The premise is simple - God died. The consequences of this event, Mortdieu, are universal and frightening. Bear weaves a beautiful story that I can't do justice to describe properly, but yet again it made me want to read mroe books by him (even though I didn't like Eon that much).

Mozart in Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner. Now this is just a plain fun romp through time, where the writers said outright they did just to have a good time. And a good time they made, creating a time-travelling-parallel-universes kind of story which makes you chuckle every once in a while. And hey - I now want to have a big poster of Mozart wearing mirrored glasses on my wall! ...more

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Mar 19, 2013 Jos rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, science-fiction

Mirrorshades is considered to be the ultimate cyberpunk anthology. This whole cyberpunk thing resonates with me for nostalgic reasons. It's an 80's thing, a time when I was a teenager and reading science fiction was one of my favourite passtimes. Although at that time, I didn't really read anything related to cyberpunk. My first try at Neuromancer in the beginning of the 90's was aborted so it took me until 2013 before I could put my nostalgia to a reality check.

It started well enough with Neuro Mirrorshades is considered to be the ultimate cyberpunk anthology. This whole cyberpunk thing resonates with me for nostalgic reasons. It's an 80's thing, a time when I was a teenager and reading science fiction was one of my favourite passtimes. Although at that time, I didn't really read anything related to cyberpunk. My first try at Neuromancer in the beginning of the 90's was aborted so it took me until 2013 before I could put my nostalgia to a reality check.

It started well enough with Neuromancer, a great novel. Sterling's short story collection Cicada Queen and his novel Schismatrix were still fine. But things started to turn sour with Mirrorshade's introductory essay on cyberpunk by Sterling. Pathetic! All cyberpunk authors are united in their liking for Pynchon? I beg your pardon. He continues to fabricate further great-sounding nonsense on the theoretical bases of the movement etc. It would have been more decent if he had just skipped this pseudo-intellectual drivel but instead he proceeds by introducing each story with a short paragraph making each story sound like Columbus' egg. To make things worse at least for the German edition I read, the essays and most of the stories were translated by Roland Fleissner, the most terrible translator I've ever come across. He already almost spoiled Schismatrix for me.

I finally came to see what the cyberpunk movement was about. Crude cryouts of a few guys wanting to see themselves as hard-boiled heroes in a dystopian technology-driven future. The 'punk' was there for a reason. It's an attitude. Come to speak of it, I can't cope with punk attitude in real life. That should have been a warning. The better writers like Gibson still managed to turn out good stories, the mediocre ones had some good ideas, the bad ones didn't rise beyond brainless extrapolation of 80's subculture and 70's drug dreams. Time has shown that cyberpunk wasn't the big thing Sterling makes out of it.

My ratings for the stories:
Gernsback continuum (Gibson): 3*
Snake eyes (Maddox): 2*
Rock on (Cadigan): 1*
Tales of Houdini (Rucker): 2*
400 boys (Laidlaw): 2*
Solstice (Kelly): 3*
Petra (Bear): 4*
Till human voices wake us (Shiner): 3*
Freezone (Shirley): 2*
Stone lives (Di Filippo): 3*
Red star, winter orbit (Sterling / Gibson): 3*
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Aug 12, 2012 Gregg Wingo rated it it was amazing

Bruce Sterling’s “Mirrorshades” represents the first anthology of the nascent movement known as cyberpunk. It is also a coming of maturity for science fiction as the dominant form of postmodern literary expression. This is illustrated most vividly by Darren Harris-Fain’s critique of the first story in the anthology, “The Gernsback Continuum”. The story by William Gibson is a denunciation of the ideals of Gernsback, the founding principles of American science fiction, and Modernism through the ad Bruce Sterling’s “Mirrorshades” represents the first anthology of the nascent movement known as cyberpunk. It is also a coming of maturity for science fiction as the dominant form of postmodern literary expression. This is illustrated most vividly by Darren Harris-Fain’s critique of the first story in the anthology, “The Gernsback Continuum”. The story by William Gibson is a denunciation of the ideals of Gernsback, the founding principles of American science fiction, and Modernism through the adventures of a photographer on assignment to catalog the remaining architectural remnants of “American Streamlined Moderne” described by the character’s employer “…as a kind of alternative America: a 1980 that never happened. An architecture of broken dreams.” As Harris-Fain explains “This futuristic yet historical architecture is explicitly connected with science fiction stories, pulp-magazine artwork…and movies such as Metropolis (1926) and Things to Come (1936)…” The Gibsonian character’s immersion into this results in his timeslipping into Gernsback’s time-space continuum and seeing the following visions of this Modernist conception of the future world and its inhabitants:

"they were Heirs to the Dream. They were white, blond, and they probably had blue eyes. They were American….the Future had come to America first…in the heart of the Dream. Here, we’d gone on and on, in a dream logic that knew nothing of pollution, the finite bounds of fossil fuels, or foreign wars it was possible to lose. They were smug, happy, and utterly content with themselves and their world."

The character finds this a nightmarish experience due to the connection he has already made with the architecture that “…Albert Speer built for Hitler”. He equates it to “…the sinister fruitiness of Hitler Youth propaganda”.

While most of the rest of the collection does not reach as direct a level of societal critique they do illustrate strongly why cyberpunk was more than just a science fiction subgenre but rather the vanguard of literature in late capitalist society.

And frankly, like much science fiction it is easy to read and damn good fun.
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Oct 29, 2014 Clare O'Beara rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sf, short-stories

I had not heard of this cyberpunk book until I came across it recently. Having read it I can see why. This was compiled in 1986 from stories written during the early eighties, and at that time the upcoming authors - all but one of whom are male - seemed to want a label to differentiate themselves from those authors we now call classic SF. That's it.

We now think of cyberpunk as involving jacking in to giant computer systems, in dystopian worlds, but that's because we've read Neuromancer by Gibso ...more

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Jul 28, 2016 JJ rated it liked it

There's a quote from Michael Swanwick on the inside back cover of the Mirrorshades paperback: "These are all hot young verbal pilots who think nothing of taking forty-thousand tons of screaming heavy metal prose and throwing it straight at the ground in a forced power dive shedding sparks and literary chaos only to pull up at the last possible instant shy of total grammatical implosion just to see the horrified looks on the pale upturned faces of the civilians as the afterburners cut in." Very c ...more

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Dec 19, 2014 Tim rated it liked it

Shelves: sf

This is a collection of stories by a group of writers who formed the core of this literary movement in the 1980s. Sterling, the editor and a member of the group, gives a good introduction to their goals and methods. Cyberpunk is basically a sharp, cynical brand of SF that blends elements of hard-boiled mystery, speculations on the future of computer technologies, and a generally low assessment of human spiritual development. It is rife with sexy, tough girls in mirrored sunglasses, people with i ...more

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Jul 21, 2011 T4ncr3d1 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, statunitensi, preferiti

In certi ambienti Mirrorshades non avrebbe bisogno di presentazioni: antologia-manifesto del cyberpunk, curata da Bruce Sterling con l'apporto di William Gibson, i padri del genere, destinata a sancire nella sfera letteraria la rivoluzione informatica a metà degli anni Ottanta.
In certi ambienti, Mirrorshades è un mito ed una leggenda, perché difficilmente reperibile. A lungo l'ho cercata, e finalmente ho concluso la mia impossibile ricerca.
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Jul 03, 2008 Nicolas rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: cyberpunk, nouvelles, rayon-fantasy-et-sf

Il est difficile de parler de quelque chose d’aussi polymorphe que ce mouvement sans en passer par les généralités, mais je vais essayer d’éviter. Tout le monde le sait, le début des années 80 a été la genèse de ce mouvement, revendiquant une sf différente tant par ses thèmes que ses implications. Et si l’ambition technologique demeure, on quitte radicalement le monde des héros de la sf traditionnelle, ainsi que ses thématiques spatiales et extra-terrestres, pour revenir ici aux bas-fonds, aux l ...more

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Oct 22, 2014 Liz rated it really liked it

Shelves: cyberpunk, short-stories

"High tech, low life" - the tagline of the cyberpunk sub-genre. I like the idea of cyberpunk because it's very much focused on the gritty humanness of the underside of futuristic science fiction. Happy endings aren't necessarily a storytelling priority in cyberpunk, because it's more like a snapshot of life in high-tech world.

It's a bit more cynical and a bit more rock n roll than classic science fiction or space opera-type science fiction (such as Star Trek). It's got a bit of noir and a bit o ...more

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Jan 03, 2016 Rene Majer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Psal se rok 1986 a kyberpunkový subžánr, dravá próza zaměřená na technologickou transformaci lidstva, byl na vrcholu. Jako manifest jeho síly vyšla dnes již legendární antologie Zrcadlovky, poprvé shrnující věrozvěsty kybernetické budoucnosti do jedné jediné knihy, dnes jednohlasně považované za historický milník žánru. Poznejte stále svěží, čtivé, energické a strhující příběhy nejlepších autorů science fiction osmdesátých let dvacátého století, poznejte pravou duši kyberpunku.
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Mar 09, 2013 29alabs rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Hay una razón por la cual Neal Stephenson mata al Cyberpunk en la era del diamante y está aquí reflejada en Mirrorshades, mientras que creo que a medidados de los 80's estos cuentos hubieran causado furor, hoy algunos de estos relatos se sienten vacíos (otros ni se sientes como cyberpunk).

Entre los que más destaco se encuentran Petra de Greg Bear, no se siente como cyberpunk pero en si la atmosfera del relato y los personajes son muy buenos. Zona libre de John Shirley, tiene muy buena atmósfera ...more

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Aug 02, 2011 La Stamberga dei Lettori rated it really liked it

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In certi ambienti Mirrorshades non avrebbe bisogno di presentazioni: antologia-manifesto del cyberpunk, curata da Bruce Sterling con l'apporto di William Gibson, i padri del genere, destinata a sancire nella sfera letteraria la rivoluzione informatica a metà degli anni Ottanta.
In certi ambienti, Mirrorshades è un mito ed una leggenda, perché difficilmente reperibile. A lungo l'ho cercata, e finalmente ho concluso la mia impossibile ricerca.
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