![]() ![]() Contributors include Rudy Rucker, Bruce Gibson, Pat Cadigan and Paul DiFilippo. Editor Bruce Sterling is one of two key figures in the movement's development. Street-wise, high-tech and always at least a bit seedy, Mirrorshades is the defining collection of a dozen early cyberpunk short fiction stories. Adapted from the Hugo and Nebula award winning novelette published in 1983. As a result, an uplifting plague is unleashed which changes the course of history. He creates bio-computer microbes and - in classic mad scientist fashion - injects himself with them. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, the only cure is a conspiratorial cyber-satanic deal.īrilliantly unorthodox researcher Vergil Ulam is at odds with the authorities and loses his job. Caught in a double-cross, his brain pays the price. A computer cowboy jacks his mind into cyberspace and swipes information for sale to the highest bidder. Groundbreaking cyber-granddaddy of them all, this book won the 'Holy Trinity' of sci-fi awards (Hugo, Nebula, Dick). ![]()
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