Yanik’s Reviews > Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology > Status Update

Alright, more than a year's break, time to get back to this one.
Hoping to find more cyberpunky authors.

There was a time where I would have enjoyed this kind of artsy, minimalist experimenting. Living space vignettes is an intereseting enough idea; the execution boring.

Yeahnah, I'm not finishing this one. What a hyperactive wordvomitting..on to the next!

That was bloody great, going to look out for more of Greg Egan's work!

Really liking Egan's writing style! Yeyuka might not be cyberpunk or even overtly sci-fi in nature, but the themes are there and the setting of Uganda is very interesting and refreshing.

How we got in town and out again was interesting. Another VR story and going a bit wild with the fantasy. I'm not convinced by the analphabetic, teen narrator being a good idea; it made the whole thing feel kind of amateurish. Themes of escapism from the dystopian reality are heavy again.

Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dream Land was a wild ride. Is all Cyberpunk this obsessed with sex? It was truly dystopian; the virtual scenes vivid and full of wonderful prose, the reality harsh, humiliating and dark. I'm currently having VR-therapy and man, this freaked me out. Not in the least because it could become true. What started and is centered around fantasy, turned out to be solid sci-fi.

The Bicycle Repairman was fun, a bit heavy on the jargon but a nice, contained story.