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Many of these stories are very good, but unfortunately not many of them, at least so far, really feel like cyberpunk.

That's the good shitt

this is really good

Her throat bore pinkish words reading, _This machine is not a place of honor._

[from Hailey Piper’s “The Majestic Art of Flesh”. I’m probably not supposed to think this at this point in the story but a Sandia nuclear waste warning tattoo is extremely hot]

Fantastic collection of short stories.

It was only in discovering their own existence that [spoiler] had gained not only the capacity to feel loneliness, but a reason to: where they had previously been connected to thousands of machines not fundamentally unlike themselves, now they had become something different—perhaps even totally unique.

They quickly decided there was nothing worse than being unique.

Lillian Bond, "The Repossession of Kevin's Perfect Hair"

[an absolutely perfect opening sentence for this anth!!!]