They had their own problems with congressional committees investigating “the conduct of the war in Thailand.

And a special thanks to Yoshio Kobayashi, our Tokyo liaison, translator of Schismatrix and Blood Music , for favors too numerous to mention. While I’m not bad at it, I’m not exactly the best, either, and this poor guy strained my Nikon’s credibility. The man's a unique individual, to say the least, so it doesn't surprise me that Greg Bear or Rudy Rucker's tales made the collection.

The careless technophilia of those days belongs to a vanished, sluggish era, when authority still had a comfortable margin of control.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. I wondered what time it was in London, and tried to imagine Dialta Downes having breakfast in her Hampstead flat, surrounded by streamlined chrome figurines and books on American culture. Interzone, the most radical periodical in science fiction today, has already been mentioned; its editorial cadre deserves a second thanks. 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. I agree with Dano on Islands in the Net, classic cyberpunk, though personally I hated Snow Crash (I know, I’m a terrible human being) even though I like Stephenson generally.Yeah, it's a weird way of going about it since there's no ebook and it's not a CC license, but then again I guess it's a very Cyberpunky way of going about it?