Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

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Two years before Mozart in Mirrorshades, in 1984, Molly Millions became the star of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer with her eye implants. It is possible to photograph what isn’t there; it’s damned hard to do, and consequently a very marketable talent. But only Morpheus wears mirrored lenses in the films, possibly as an instrument that represents his philosophical approach. The story by William Gibson is a denunciation of the ideals of Gernsback, the founding principles of American science fiction, and Modernism through the adventures of a photographer on assignment to catalog the remaining architectural remnants of "American Streamlined Moderne" described by the character's employer ".

The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming.

Maybe its because my tastes have moved very far from cyberpunk these days, or maybe its a genre thats repeating itself. In the morning I’d drive down to Nogales and photograph the old brothels, something I’d intended to do for years. The cyberpunks, being hybrids themselves, are fascinated by interzones: the areas where, in the words of William Gibson, "the street finds its own uses for things. Spire stood on spire in gleaming ziggurat steps that climbed to a central golden temple tower ringed with the crazy radiator flanges of the Mongo gas stations. After George had been led down the wall-foam corridor by a medical technician, Charley Hughes sat chain-smoking Gauloises and watching with clinical detachment the shaking of his hands.

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And that was my frame of mind as I made the stations of her convoluted socioarchitectural cross in my red Toyota—as I gradually tuned in to her image of a shadowy America-that-wasn’t, of Coca-Cola plants like beached submarines, and fifth-run movie houses like the temples of some lost sect that had worshiped blue mirrors and geometry.

It's all in the mix"—this is true of much Eighties art and is as applicable to cyberpunk as it is to punk mix-and-match retro fashion and multitrack digital recording. You never actually saw it take off, but it flew away to Dialta Downe’s never-never land, true home of a generation of completely uninhibited technophiles. We must get a complete physical picture—a superCAT scan, cerebral chemistry and electrical activity profiles. That’s actually rather renewed my interest in the sequels to Altered Carbon Dano, I had rather uncharitably assumed he’d produced them because the market likes predictability and sequels provide that.And this is a final oddity of our generation in SF—that, for us, the literature of the future has a long and honored past.

Behind him, under the laser light of a Blaupunkt holestage, people a foot high chattered about the war in Thailand and how lucky the United States had been to escape another Vietnam. I love that stuff, but I also need theme and metaphor in the way Gibson does it in the Sprawl trilogy. Oh, no, quite impossible, even with those twelve giant props; but they loved the look, don’t you see? The sunglasses move him visually closer to resemble a machine as they hide any emotions he may express through his eyes, “the windows to the soul. George’s eyes were closed as he thought back and felt the fear that had come only afterward, rising again.Included is "Johnny Mnemonic", the short story story that was the inspiration for a somewhat disappointing film adaptation in 1995. I saw the winged statues that guard the Hoover Dam, forty-foot concrete hood ornaments leaning steadfastly into an imaginary hurricane. The American Revolution has occurred, but it was carried out with the support of the company, which used it as an opportunity to establish a puppet government in North America.