Fights between gangs of children/adolescents with psychic powers. And very recognizable in spirit, given the current entertainment industry. Pathé are filming impossible escapes by Houdini, plus the distress at the sure-death setups by his wheelchair-bound mother. It's the future of entertainment all gone wrong (think MacLeod's Execution Channel). It is well written, disorienting, without too many explanations, the rest you have to work out for yourselves. This essentially does for music exactly what Gibson did for film (do you remember Kings of Sleep?). It's the future of music – all music is mediated via a human called a 'Sinner' (short for synthesizer). This, in turn, is classic Cyberpunk in the vein of Gibson's Hinterlands. But Aleph's motives are not entirely clear, either. He is taken to a space station, where he interfaces with Aleph, an AI. And now his Effective Human Interface Technology, which he was discharged with as it is non-removable, is acting up.Įssentially it's the older parts of his brain taking over – something he calls “the snake”. George Jordan was supposed to be the human part of a war plane in the war in Thailand. It's also not Gibson's strongest short story, in my opinion but still an interesting treatise on a future which never was, except maybe in the common subconscious.

On the other it never struck me as Cyberpunk. Still, if nothing else, this essay proves that I much prefer his fiction to his non-fiction.Īfter the introduction the book contains the following stories: I beg to differ, but again, that's from a different, i.e. The book kicks off with an essay by Sterling, displaying the history, influences, and forefathers of Cyberpunk, and his own definition of the genre. It's a good collection, but it reads differently nearly 20 years into the future. Urn:oclc:13945407 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111213081302 Scanner is an Anthology, edited by Bruce Sterling, with the hottest and most relevant (from his point of view in the midst of the vortex) Cyberpunk stories all of which were originally published between 81 and 86.

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