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Jared Shurin: Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 5 stars

A genre-defining--and redefining--collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord …

A huge anthology of cyberpunk stories.

4 stars

Note: This is a summary, as a review of each of the stories may be too long for BookWyrm to hold. The full review can be read at my website [ sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/fiction/2023/20231212-BigBookCyberpunk.html ].

A fabulous anthology of stories centred around the genre of Cyberpunk, as seen by the editor. The stories here centre around technology and its possible effects on people and society and range in style from contemporary to the more ‘punkish’ which involve a lot of cyber-slang, sometimes to the point where I have trouble understanding the story.

The book is divided into several sections, each with stories related to that section. It starts with a story that the editor considers the precursor to the kind of cyberpunk stories in that section. And the book starts with a story the editor considers a precursor to the whole field of cyberpunk.

With such a huge anthology, it would not …