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Rewriring the Future

Tachyon Publications has posted the Table of Contents for their Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel), and it's a killer line-up:

  • Introduction: Hacking Cyberpunk by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
  • Introduction: Kessel-Sterling Correspondence by John Kessel
  • Bruce Sterling "Bicycle Repairman"
  • Gwyneth Jones "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland"
  • Jonathan Lethem "How We Got Into Town and Out Again"
  • Greg Egan "Yeyuka"
  • Pat Cadigan "The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry"
  • William Gibson "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City"
  • David Marusek "The Wedding Album"
  • Walter Jon Williams "Daddy’s World"
  • Michael Swanwick "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"
  • Charles Stross "Lobsters"
  • Paul Di Filippo "What’s Up, Tiger Lily"
  • Christopher Rowe “The Voluntary State”
  • Elizabeth Bear “Two Dreams on Trains”
  • Paolo Bacigalupi "The Calorie Man"
  • Mary Rosenblum "Search Engine"
  • Cory Doctorow "When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth"

That second "introduction" is actually a series of letters between Bruce Sterling and John Kessel starting in 1985, which sounds like it's about the heart of the cyberpunk-humanist split. I hadn't even suspected such a thing existed, and I can't wait to read it myself.

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