Good cyberpunk touch for cybermonday. A free book pirated by its authors. For many years in print, we decided to allow it to be free online...
The MIRRORSHADES cyberpunk story collection, the original, with stories by William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear, Lew Shiner, Marc Laidlaw, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, Tom Maddox, Paul Di Filippo , James Patrick Kelly, and, yes, me--
If you love #scifi, #space, #spaceexploration etc then #ACityOnMars is a fantastic read on the harsh realities of space settlement (and what we don’t know about it). Check it out!
@villainousfriend I wish I had better news, when I first wrote my novel mesh, I made sure that the protagonist was wheelchair bound and getting his legs fixed with a cybernetic robotic leg system was part of the plot. I got such a bad feedback on that, so many accusations of being insensitive, that I took it out.
I'm really making my characters suffer in this one... 😳 After writing this scene, I've just considered what I've done to my main characters so far in this story. It's pretty brutal. And this isn't even supposed to be a horror...
Oh look - yet another author who's written a #SciFi novel, but can't bring themselves to admit this.
After all, 'serious' novelists wouldn't dirty themselves with something as vulgar as that, would they? Who'd invite them to cocktail parties? Long live the Posh vs. Tosh false dichotomy.
"#SamanthaHarvey: ‘I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral’...
@saila If you're focused on facial-recognition, you're missing the point. The DNA/mismatching is an allegory for the lengths humanity will go through in order to 'fit in' with whatever social mobility model happens to work. Just as parents fight to put their kids in 'the right preschool,' or Ivy Leaguers fight to get hired by the right companies, there's a structure to our civilization and people are willing to game that structure in order to succeed. Still an enjoyable, thoughtful piece of scifi.