They exploded on the scen in a white-hot flash of pure talent. With their hard-edged, street-wise prose they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics called their work cyberpunk. And their surreal, decadent futures made science fiction history. Here in one volume is the definitive cyberpunk short fiction collection, including twelve stories and collaborations by the most startling talents in the field. Also included, an original essay on the cyberpunk movement by award-winning author Bruce Sterling.

Contents:
• The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson
• Snake-Eyes by Tom Maddox
• Rock On by Pat Cadigan
• Tales of Houdini by Rudy Rucker
• 400 Boys by Marc Laidlaw
• Solstice by James Patrick Kelly
• Petra by Greg Bear
• Till Human Voices Wake Us by Lewis Shiner
• Freezone by John Shirley
• Stone Lives by Paul Di Filippo
• Red Star, Winter Orbit by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
• Mozart in Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner