Rewired_ The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology - James Patrick Kelly [229]
ok night night
take care
Van waved at him as he creaked to the door, stretching out his back with a long series of pops.
“Sleep well, boss,” he said.
“Don’t stick around here all night again,” Felix said. “You need your sleep, too.”
“You’re too good to us grunts,” Van said, and went back to typing.
Felix went to the door and walked out into the night. Behind him, the biodiesel generator hummed and made its acrid fumes. The harvest moon was up, which he loved. Tomorrow, he’d go back and fix another computer and fight off entropy again. And why not?
It was what he did. He was a sysadmin.
“I think one of the things that I see when I look back at my earlier work is a struggle to recognize and accept that the heart is the master and the head is the servant, and that that is always the case, except when it isn’t the case we’re in deep, deep trouble. That’s the way it looks to me now when I look back on it, but I wasn’t able to articulate that twenty years ago.”
— William Gibson, No Maps for These Territories
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Hacking Cyberpunk | James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
Sterling-Kessel Correspondence
Bruce Sterling | “Bicycle Repairman”
Gwyneth Jones | “Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland”
Jonathan Lethem | “How We Got in Town and out Again”
Greg Egan | “Yeyuka”
Pat Cadigan | “The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry with a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original Audience”
William Gibson | “Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City”
David Marusek | “The Wedding Album”
Walter Jon Williams | “Daddy’s World”
Michael Swanwick | “The Dog Said Bow-Wow”
Charles Stross | “Lobsters”
Paul Di Filippo | “What’s Up, Tiger Lily?”
Christopher Rowe | “The Voluntary State”
Elizabeth Bear | “Two Dreams on Trains”
Paolo Bacigalupi | “The Calorie Man”
Mary Rosenblum | “Search Engine”
Cory Doctorow | “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”