The Big Book of Cyberpunk (Volume 1 and 2)

The Big Book/s of Cyberpunk published in the UK on 2 May 2024.

It can be found here:

• Amazon (Volume 1, Volume 2)

• Blackwells (Volume 1, Volume 2)

• Bookshop.org (Volume 1, Volume 2)

• Foyles (Volume 1, Volume 2)

• Hive (Volume 1, Volume 2)

• Waterstones (Volume 1, Volume 2)

• WH Smith (Volume 1, Volume 2)

Or, best of all, your local independent bookshop.

The Big Book of Cyberpunk: Volume 1

• Editor’s Note

• Introduction to volume 1 

• The Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson

SELF

• Introduction

• The Girl Who Was Plugged In - James Tiptree Jr.

• Pretty Boy Crossover - Pat Cadigan

• Wolves of the Plateau - John Shirley

• An Old-Fashioned Story - Phillip Mann

• The World as We Know It - George Alec Effinger

• Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - Gwyneth Jones

• Lobsters - Charles Stross

• Surfing the Khumbu - Richard Kadrey

• Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars - Cat Rambo

• The Girl Hero’s Mirror Says He’s Not the One - Justina Robson

• The Completely Rechargeable Man - Karen Heuler

• File: The Death of Designer D. - Christian Kirtchev

• Better Than - Jean Rabe

• Ghost Codes of Sparkletown (New Mix) - Jeff Noon

• Choosing Faces - Lavie Tidhar

• I Tell Thee All, I Can No More - Sunny Moraine

• Four Tons Too Late - K. C. Alexander

• Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points - Neon Yang

• RealLife 3.0 - Jean-Marc Ligny

• wysiomg - Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

• The Infinite Eye - J. P. Smythe

• The Real You™ - Molly Tanzer

• A Life of Its Own - Aleš Kot

• Helicopter Story - Isabel Fall

• Lena - qntm

CULTURE

• Introduction

• Coming Attraction - Fritz Leiber

• With the Original Cast - Nancy Kress

• Dogfight - William Gibson and Michael Swanwick

• Glass Reptile Breakout - Russell Blackford

• [Learning About] Machine Sex - Candas Jane Dorsey

• A Short Course in Art Appreciation - Paul Di Filippo

• D.GO - Nicholas Royle

• Consumimur Igni - Harry Polkinhorn

• SQPR - Kim Newman

• Gray Noise - Pepe Rojo

• Retoxicity - Steve Beard

• 0wnz0red - Cory Doctorow

• Younis in the Belly of the Whale - Yasser Abdellatif

• Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop - Suzanne Church

• The White Mask - Zedeck Siew

• Degrees of Beauty - Cassandra Khaw

• Alligator Heap - E. J. Swift

• Glitterati - Oliver Langmead

• Rain, Streaming - Omar Robert Hamilton

• Found Earworms - M. Lopes da Silva

• Electric Tea - Marie Vibbert

• Exopunk’s Not Dead - Corey J. White

• Études - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

• Apocalypse Playlist - Beth Cato

• Act of Providence - Erica Satifka

• Feral Arcade Children of the American Northeast - Sam J. Miller

POST-CYBERPUNK

• Introduction

• Petra - Greg Bear

• The Scab’s Progress - Bruce Sterling and Paul Di Filippo

• Salvaging Gods - Jacques Barcia

• Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico - Paul Graham Raven

• About the Authors and the Translators

• About the Editor

• Acknowledgments

• Permissions Acknowledgments

• Further Reading

Volume 2

• Editor’s Note

• Introduction to volume 2 

SYSTEM

• Introduction

• Time Considered as a Helix of Semiprecious Stones - Samuel R. Delany

• Cyberpunk - Bruce Bethke

• Hostile Takeover - Craig Padawer

• Rat - James Patrick Kelly

• Arachne - Lisa Mason

• Axiomatic - Greg Egan

• Gene Wars -Paul J. McAuley

• Britworld™ - James Lovegrove

• Ripped Images, Rusted Dreams - Gerardo Horacio Porcayo

• The Great Simoleon Caper - Neal Stephenson

• Immolation - Jeffrey Thomas

• Time of Day - Nick Mamatas

• Branded - Lauren Beukes

• P - Yun Ko-eun

• I Can Transform You - Maurice Broaddus

• Be Seeing You - Madeline Ashby

• Keeping Up with Mr. Johnson - Steven S. Long

• Flyover Country - Tim Maughan

• Darkout - E. Lily Yu

• 2045 Dystopia - Ryuko Azuma

• Thoughts and Prayers - Ken Liu

• Somatosensory Cortex Dog Mess You Up Big Time, You Sick Sack of S**T - Minister Faust

• The Life Cycle of a Cyber Bar - Arthur Liu

CHALLENGE

• Introduction

• We Can Remember It For You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick

• Speed - Misha

• Computer Friendly - Eileen Gunn

• I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer - Nisi Shawl

• The Gene Drain - Lewis Shiner

• Deep Eddy - Bruce Sterling

• The Yuletide Cyberpunk Yarn, or Christmas_Eve- 117.DIR - Victor Pelevin

• Wonderama - Bef

• Comp.basilisk.faq - David Langford

• Spider’s Nest - Myra Çakan

• The Last American - John Kessel

• Earth Hour - Ken MacLeod

• Violation of the TrueNet Security Act - Taiyo Fujii

• Twelve Minutes to Vinh Quang - T. R. Napper

• Operation Daniel - Khalid Kaki

• Fallenangel.dll - Brandon O’Brien

• CRISPR Than You - Ganzeer

• Wi-Fi Dreams - Fabio Fernandes

• Juicy Ghost - Rudy Rucker

• Abeokuta52 - Wole Talabi

• Keep Portland Wired - Michael Moss

• Do Androids Dream of Capitalism and Slavery? - Mandisi Nkomo

• The State Machine - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

• The Tin Pilot - K. A. Teryna

• The Memory Librarian - Janelle Monáe and Alaya Dawn Johnson

POST-CYBERPUNK

• Introduction

• Cat Pictures Please - Naomi Kritzer

• The Day a Computer Wrote a Novel - Yurei Raita

• The Endless - Saad Hossain

• Ghosts - Vauhini Vara

• About the Authors and the Translators

• About the Editor

• Acknowledgments

• Permissions Acknowledgments

• Further Reading