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Title: A necessary primer for understanding the "cyberpunk" genre..
Review: Mirrorshades offers a host of short stories that notonly give a good read but will acquaint you with the verybeginnings of the cyberpunk genre. Included is "Johnny Mnemonic", the short story story that was the inspiration fora somewhat disappointing film adaptation in 1995.The crowning jewel of the collection is "Mozart inMirrorshades" by Sterling himself. Picture Wolfgang AmadeusMozart ("...call me Wolf, okay?") writing pop music, timetravel to paralell universes, mongol warriors on Harleys,Thomas Jefferson catching the hypersonic VTOL to discuss oildrilling in Texas, and Marie Antoinette in a leopard skinbikini screaming for burritos and pizza... Thiswhile the Freemasons organize for guerrilla war in Europeto drive out the invaders from the 21st century."Mirrorshades" is a must-have for anyone interestedin science fiction written after 1979.
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