Status Updates From The Big Book of Cyberpunk

Read Beard’s “Retoxicity” and while I think the underlying themes and story is fascinating Besrd makes it much too difficult to wade thru the noise to get to it to make exploring the book it comes from worthwhile.

Read Pepe Rojo’s “Grey Noise” and while it may have got the tech wrong he’s remarkably close to a lot of the actual social and cultural results.

Very good. Worth tracking down some of his other works in English.

Read Newman’s SQPR and unfortunately it has turned out to be eerily prophetic in many ways.

Just read Paul Di Filippo’s “A Short Course in Art Appreciation”. Thankfully this was short. The essence of the story is easy to understand I think my issue with it is I can’t see why anybody would want to perceive the world in a particular artistic style so it was a “meh”

Read Dorsey’s Learning About Machine Sex. It was great and disturbing

Read Blackford’s Glass Reptile Breakout. Very interesting story on cultural, control of culture snd tech. The cyberpunk is more subtle but there.

Read Gibson & Swanwick’s “Dogfight”. It’s an extremely powerful story.

It’s also extremely emotionally disturbing, disgusting and horrifying

Read Shurin’s introduction to the Culture section.

Read Lieber’s Coming Attraction which was mildly interesting

However Nancy Kress’s “With The Original Cash” was absolutely fucking amazing. So much packed into this small story.

Read Faust’s Dog story and Liu’s cyber bar story.

Neither were favorites of mine although Faust’s was emotionally satisfying and Liu’s an interesting concept.