![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A feature is a portion of a previously unpublished graphic novel version of Gibson's seminal 1984 novel. Sometime-cyberpunk author Pat Cadigan produced a retrospective of the movement looking back from 2002, reusing only one story from Sterling's book and including older stories, by Bester, Smith, Dick, and Tiptree, that prefigured cyberpunk's ideas. Larry McCaffrey's 1991 book spans both cyberpunk and postmodern fiction, and is less an anthology of stories than a sampling of fiction and nonfiction, with numerous excerpts from novels and only 11 complete stories, followed by interviews and essays taking more than half the book. The anthology defined cyberpunk's aesthetic and identified the key authors of the movement. William Gibson and Bruce Sterling were the early stars of the movement, notably with Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer and Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades in 1986, containing stories first published from 1981 to 1985. The big new theme in science fiction of the 1980s was cyberpunk - stories that imagined the merging of the human and the cybernetic and explored the frontiers of virtual worlds. ![]()
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