The Big Book of Cyberpunk

The Big Book of Cyberpunk released September 26th, 2023 and it is a beast.

The largest anthology of the genre to date, it weighs in at over 1,000 pages. It covers a half-century of global cyberpunk, with authors from over two dozen countries.

The following is an alphabetical list of the contents. The book itself is organised slightly more whimsically. It is divided up into a series of individual themes, with the intent to demonstrate their evolution (and/or consistency) over time.

There’s also editorial matter out the wazzoo, as I like the sound of my own voice.

Any typos, misspellings, or other inaccuracies are the fault of the editor.

You can order your copy here. 

(UK edition landing in 2024.)

1. Yasser Abdellatif – “Younis in the Belly of the Whale” (2011) - translation by Robin Moger

2. K.C. Alexander – “Four Tons Too Late” (2014)

3. Madeline Ashby – “Be Seeing You” (2015)

4. Ryuko Azuma – “2045 Dystopia” (2018) - first translation by Marissa Skeels

5. Jacques Barcia – “Salvaging Gods” (2010)

6. Greg Bear – “Petra” (1982)

7. Steve Beard – “Retoxicity” (1998)

8. Bef – “Wonderama” (1998) - first translation by the the author

9. Bruce Bethke – “Cyberpunk” (1983)

10. Lauren Beukes – “Branded” (2003) 

11. Russell Blackford – “Glass Reptile Breakout” (1985)

12. Maurice Broaddus – “I Can Transform You” (2013)

13. Pat Cadigan – “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

14. Myra Çakan – “Spider’s Nest” (2004) - translation by Jim Young

15. Beth Cato – “Apocalypse Playlist” (2020)

16. Suzanne Church – “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop” (2012)

17. Samuel R. Delany – “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” (1968)

18. Paul Di Filippo – “A Short Course in Art Appreciation” (1988)

19. Philip K. Dick – “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (1966)

20. Cory Doctorow – “0wnz0red” (2002)

21. Candas Jane Dorsey – “[Learning About] Machine Sex” (1988)

22. George Alec Effinger – “The World As We Know It” (1992)

23. Greg Egan – “Axiomatic” (1990)

24. Isabel Fall – “Helicopter Story” (2020)

25. Minister Faust – “Somatosensory Cortex Dog Mess You Up Big Time, You Sick Sack of S**T” (2021)

26. Fabio Fernandes – “WiFi Dreams” (2019) - translation by the author

27. Taiyo Fujii – “Violation of the TrueNet Security Act” (2013) - translation by Jim Hubbert

28. Ganzeer – “Staying Crisp” (2018)

29. William Gibson – “The Gernsback Continuum” (1981)

30. William Gibson and Michael Swanwick – “Dogfight” (1985)

31. Eileen Gunn – “Computer Friendly” (1989)

32. Omar Robert Hamilton – “Rain, Streaming” (2019) 

33. Karen Heuler – “The Completely Rechargeable Man” (2008)

34. Saad Hossain – “The Endless” (2020) 

35. Gwyneth Jones – “Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland” (1996)

36. Richard Kadrey – “Surfing the Khumbu” (2002)

37. Khalid Kaki – “Operation Daniel” (2016) - translation by Adam Talib

38. James Patrick Kelly – “Rat” (1986)

39. John Kessel – “The Last American” (2007)

40. Cassandra Khaw – “Degrees of Beauty” (2016)

41. Christian Kirchev – “File: the death of Designer D” (2009)

42. Aleš Kot – “A Life of Its Own” (2019) 

43. Nancy Kress – “With the Original Cast” (1982)

44. Naomi Kritzer – “Cat Pictures Please” (2015)

45. Lavanya Lakshminarayan – “Études” (2020)

46. David Langford – “comp.basilisk.faq” (1999)

47. Oliver Langmead – “Glitterati” (2017)

48. Fritz Leiber – “Coming Attraction” (1950)

49. Jean-Marc Ligny – “RealLife 3.0” (2014) - first translation by N.R.M. Roshak

50. Arthur Liu – “The Life Cycle of a Cyber Bar” (2021) - translation by Nathan Faries

51. Ken Liu – “Thoughts and Prayers” (2019)

52. Steven S Long – “Keeping Up with Mr Johnson” (2016)

53. M. Lopes da Silva – “Found Earworms” (2019)

54. James Lovegrove – “Britworld™” (1992)

55. Nick Mamatas – “Time of Day” (2002)

56. Phillip Mann – “An Old-Fashioned Story” (1989)

57. Lisa Mason – “Arachne” (1987)

58. Tim Maughan – “Flyover Country” (2016)

59. Ken MacLeod – “Earth Hour” (2011)

60. Paul J McAuley – “Gene Wars” (1991)

61. Sam J. Miller – “Feral Arcade Children of the American Northeast” (2021)

62. Misha – “Speed” (1988)

63. Janelle Monáe and Alaya Dawn Johnson – “The Memory Librarian” (2022)

64. Sunny Moraine – “I Tell Thee All, I Can No More” (2013)

65. Michael Moss – “Keep Portland Wired” (2020)

66. T.R. Napper – “Twelve Minutes to Vinh Quang” (2015)

67. Kim Newman – “SQPR” (1992)

68. Mandisi Nkomo – “Do Androids Dream of Capitalism and Slavery?” (2020)

69. Jeff Noon – “Ghost Codes of Sparkletown” (2011)

70. Brandon O’Brien – “fallenangel.dll” (2016)

71. Craig Padawer – “Hostile Takeover” (1985)

72. Victor Pelevin – “The Yuletide Cyberpunk Yarn, or Christmas_Eve-117.DIR.” (1996) - first translation by Alex Shvartsman

73. Harry Polkinhorn – “Consumimum Igni” (1990)

74. Gerardo Horacio Porcayo – “Ripped Images, Rusty Dreams” (1993) - first translation by the author

75. qntm – “Lena” (2021)

76. Jean Rabe – “Better Than” (2010)

77. Yurei Raita – “The Day a Computer Wrote a Novel” (2019) - translation by Marissa Skeels

78. Cat Rambo – “Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars” (2006)

79. Paul Graham Raven – “Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico” (2014)

80. Justina Robson – “The Girl Hero’s Mirror Says He’s Not the One” (2007)

81. Pepe Rojo – “Grey Noise” (1996) - translation by Andrea Bell

82. Nicholas Royle – “D.GO.” (1990)

83. Rudy Rucker – “Juicy Ghost” (2019) 

84. Erica Satifka – “Act of Providence” (2021)

85. Nisi Shawl – “I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer” (1989)

86. Lewis Shiner – “The Gene Drain” (1989)

87. John Shirley – “Wolves of the Plateau” (1988)

88. Zedeck Siew – “The White Mask” (2015) 

89. J.P. Smythe – “The Infinite Eye” (2017)

90. Neal Stephenson – “The Great Simoleon Caper” (1995)

91. Bruce Sterling – “Deep Eddy” (1993)

92. Bruce Sterling and Paul Di Filippo – “The Scab’s Progress” (2001)

93. Charles Stross – “Lobsters” (2001)

94. E.J. Swift – “Alligator Heap” (2016)

95. Wole Talabi – “Abeokuta52” (2019)

96. Molly Tanzer – “The Real You™” (2018)

97. K.A. Teryna – “The Tin Pilot” (2021) - translation by Alex Shvartsman

98. Jeffrey Thomas – “Immolation” (2000)

99. Lavie Tidhar – “Choosing Faces” (2012)

100. James Tiptree Jr. – “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973)

101. Vauhini Vara – “Ghosts” (2021)

102. Marie Vibbert – “Electric Tea” (2019)

103. Corey J. White – “Exopunk’s Not Dead” (2019)

104. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne – “The State Machine” (2020) 

105. Neon Yang – “Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points” (2014) 

106. E. Lily Yu – “Darkout” (2016)

107. Yun Ko-eun – “P.” (2011) - first translation by Sean Lin-Halbert

108. Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – “wysiomg” (2016)

first translation = first English language publicationtranslation = an existing translation

Further details. 

(And UK edition.)