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I love the idea of post-cyberpunk and thoroughly enjoyed the introduction and editorial commentary throughout. This is one of the most even short story anthologies I’ve ever read. Not a dud in the bunch!
I am impatient with movements and manifestoes, even when they seem to make sense. So ignore the bombastic subtitle of this anthology; ignore the assertions about cyberpunk and about its anointed successor, as laid out here... and just look at the list of authors included. Every single one is a powerhouse of recent SF. Every single story in this book is powerful, both as extrapolation (even when fanciful or inaccurate) and as literature. Some, like Bruce Sterling's "Bicycle Repairman," Charles St...
"The Dog Said Bow Wow" was awesome.
oh soooooo serious
As with most anthologies, this is a mix of stories I rather enjoyed (Daddy's World), so-so stories (The Dog Said Bow-Wow) stories I'd read before and didn't like any better this time around (The Wedding Album), and the obligatory WTF/ugh (amusingly, this time by William Gibson, progenitor of Cyberpunk.)
Sooo boring, with very rare exceptions. I love Steampunk, but Cyberpunk really isn't for me...
My experience with most anthologies is that they're pretty hit and miss, and for me this was no exception, but there was enough hit here to make the overall experience good and introduce me to some new authors.Stories I particularly enjoyed:“Bicycle Repairman” by Bruce Sterling“Lobsters” by Charles Stross (but had already read it elsewhere)“Yeyuka” by Greg Egan“Search Engine” by Mary Rosenblum“The Calorie Man” By Paolo Bagciaglupi (but had already read it elsewhere)“The Final Remake of The Retur...
This collection has some good stories in it and some stories that are quite bad. There are a few that will give you something to reflect on and a few that shouldn't have escaped whatever grade school creative writing class they crawled out of. Most annoying were the interjections from the editors that were full of pretentiousness, word salad, and intellectual masturbation. Their entire conception of 'post-cyberpunk' mostly turns out to be just contemporary science fiction. So, think of this book...
The anthology opens with ‘Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling. It’s the tale of Lyle, an anarchist living in a squat who repairs bicycles. Sometimes an old mate sends him packages for safekeeping and one day he receives from this source a telly which shows only one channel, a political show but with sarcastic and subversive subtitles. He is then visited by a slinky lady with a bike to repair who later tries to burgle him. The story is pretty good and the life of a street anarchist is, as portray...
3.75 starsA solid collection of stories, though the "cyberpunk" theme felt kinda loose, in spite of the editors obvious efforts.
This anthology is put together by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. Sadly, I cannot recall reading any of their work but I shall endeavor to remedy that situation shortly.The introduction is very well done, in that "let's spend a lot of time trying to define common definitions so we can disagree about nuance" sort of way. I got a feeling they were desperately casting around for a singularity (a recurrent theme in the collection) to define a point in SF history where cyberpunk (CP) gave up the...
This collection of short fiction curated for post-cyberpunk fiction is very well curated. Though some of the stories weren't my jam, I could tell why they were there because with each selection of short fiction there is a correspondence between two people talking about the genre. Interspersed throughout are quotes from some cyberpunk heavy hitters we know today. Just so, lots off the short fiction are from the same people. Gibson, Sterling, Stross, Bacigalupi, Doctorow, loads of people on most p...
Pretty solid collection. Favorites:Bicycle RepairmanYeyukaThe Wedding AlbumLobsters
Honestly, I didn't enjoy this as much as I wanted to. I don't know if the editor was going for a literary analysis or something, but the reprinted letters got tedious and unread almost immediately. Bruce Sterling - Bicycle Repairman - 4 StarsGwyneth Jones - Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - 2Jonathan Lethem - How We Got in Town and out Again - 5Greg Egan - Yeyuka - 5Pat Cadigan - The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry with a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original A...
A typical collection of typical stories that have somehow been categorized as post cyberpunk
Cyberpunk was a subgenre of science fiction that hit big in the 80s and faded out, not to nothingness, but becoming rarer as some of the ideas became more used in the mainstream, were you often had to deliberately set out to echo most of the cliches of cyberpunk if you wanted to write a story that could be described as such. This is an anthology of stories that are 'postcyberpunk', a subgenre that's a lot harder to define. Especially around the borders, a lot of postcyberpunk stories resemble cy...
Rarely have I read a collection of short stories where the quality varied so widely. Some were incredible (the first entry comes to mind). At least one was so bad, I didn't finish it.
3.5 average, fairly good stories, while some being a tad underwhelming or flat-out dull. Greg Egan's "Yeyuka" is the personal highlight.
Nifty collection of later Cyberpunk from the mid-nineties to the mid- double aughts. Most of the usual suspects are in the collection. Of interest, is that two of the stories are set in New Orleans, and two others are set in Tennessee. It is easy to see the Big Easy as a dystopian playground.
Very poor anthology, with much jerkery and pontification in between a very uneven set of stories. I'd have given it 1 star, but there are some gems amongst the dross and drivel.
