![]() Its been a while, I think its time to go and read it again. I can see my old battered copy of Mirrorshades on the shelf from where I am writing this. Meeting Jim at Clarion was totally awe inspiring as a consequence. I remember that story pretty much scene for scene, despite not having read it for at least a decade. Contributions from Greg Bear and Pat Cadigan also rocked my adolescent world, but it was James Patrick Kelly’s Solstice that really blew my mind. But Tom Maddox Snake-Eyes sticks in my memory as the epitomy of cyberpunk, and a major influence over my story They Leave Him No Voice (workshopped at Clarion and awaiting re-write). Red Star, Winter Orbit still rates for me as one of Gibson’s strongest stories (alongside Hinterlands). ![]() As unique and startling as that novel was, without seeing the diversity of writing in the Bruce sterling edited anthology I might not have grasped what SF short fiction was really capable of. I would guess that like many readers I found it in the wake of reading Neuromancer. ![]() ![]() Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology was the book that woke me up to what science fiction could be. But I was surprised to see my most influential anthology went entirely unmentioned… It’s a list that makes me want to read more, as do the the comments. John Klima sticks his neck out and nominates his top 10 most influential SF / F anthologies over at Tor.com. ![]()
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