Status Updates From The Big Book of Cyberpunk

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.

Read Long’s story on Shadowrun which was awesome of course.

Read Maugham’s Fly Over country which was subtly brilliant and sad.

Yu’s Darkout which was subtly horrific

Read Ashby’s Be Seeing You and simply amazingly authentic. Will be adding her to the book list.

Just read Broaddus’s “I Can Transform You”

It was absolutely brilliant

Read Mamatas Time of Day. Disturbing use of the infection by a monastery “brother”. Too reminiscent of the power of the church and feels like raping the mind and forced conversion.

Doctorow’s 0wnz0red is absolutely a must

Read Thomas’s Immolation. Absolutely wonderful story for all the ideas it brings up

Stephenson’s The Great Simolean Caper - too bad all the idiots promising real word crypto currency didn’t read it.

Great story though.

Stephenson’s The Great Simolean Caper - too bad all the idiots promising real word crypto currency didn’t read it.

Great story

Read Rusted Images, Rusted Dreams by Porcayo

Absolutely wonderful analysis of the human condition and the desire to escape.

Wish there was more work translated into English

Read McCauley’s Gene Wars and lovegrove’s britworld and both were absolutely fascinating for completely different reasons.

Read polkinhor’s consumimur igni and was blah. I’m not sure I understood his intent but what little I did provided insufficient perspective for me to care

Read Mason’s Arachne which I struggled with mainly I think because there was no firm footing in which to understand the journey.

Read Egan’s Axiomatic which is absolutely outstanding and definitely gives you footing on which to think about the actions of the protagonist

Read Rat by Kelly. Absolutely amazing

Read Bethke’s Cyberpunk which was intriguing up until the end

Padawer’s Hostile Takeover extremely fascinating but felt like no ending

Read the intro story to the society section of the big book which was written in 1968

Delany’s: Time Considered as a Helix of Semiprecious Stones

Pretty good. Probably proto
Cyberpunk mixed with science fiction and film noir but really good.

The Real You by Tanzer - just fucking amazing that’s all I’ll say

A Life of its own by KOT - even better even better about how AI learns you and you learn it and the emotional traps

Helicopter Story by Fall - totally not what people think and absolutely amazing about purpose the military and combat

QNTM - static immortality - beautiful discussion

Read the following:

WYSIOMG by Amaro but other than the accepted fluidity of gender transition I didn’t really understand the point of the story.

The Infinite Eye by Smythe: completely fascinating due to its inhuman cubicle work, illegal immigration, growing divide of tech literacy, use of illegals to watch illegals to survive and of course finally rebellion and sacrifice because of dehumanization. Awesome