Dangerous Visions

Editor: Harlan Ellison First Published: 1967 Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison’s 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards. Featured Authors: 01. Lester del Rey – Evensong by 02.Robert Silverberg – Flies 03. Frederik Pohl – The Day After the Day…

Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams

Editor: Gardner Dozois First Published: 1994 A collection of cyberpunk stories originally published in Asmiov’s Magazine in the 80’s and 90’s. Featured Authors: 1. Nearly Departed by Pat Cadigan 2. A Hand in the Mirror by Sonia Orin Lyris 3. Computer Friendly by Eileen Gunn 4. Chip Runner by Robert Silverberg 5. A Coney Island of the Mind by Maureen F. McHugh 6. Dreamwood by…

Eldritch Chrome: Unquiet Tales of a Mythos-Haunted Future

Editors: Brian M. Sammons & Glynn Owen Barrass First Published: 2016 URING THE DECADES since H.P. Lovecraft first wrote of the Cthulhu Mythos, many authors have crossed his themes into other genres, enhancing his original vision with stories taking place in the distant past, in the far-flung future, and in myriad places in-between. Cyberpunk tales are written in dark, gritty, film-noir styles. Their protagonists live…

Zippered Flesh 3: Yet More Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

Editor: Weldon Burge First Published: 2017 What horror anthology on body enhancements wouldn’t include gross-out fiction? This book has it in spades. But, this collection of stories goes far beyond that. Here you will also find science fiction, surreal fiction, fantasy, and even a full serving of dark humor. Disturbing, perverse, often gut-wrenching (pun intended) stories—all between the covers of this anthology! Nineteen chilling tales…

Zippered Flesh 2: More Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

Editor: Weldon Burge First Published: 2013 So, you loved the first ZIPPERED FLESH anthology? Well, here are yet more tales of body enhancements that have gone horribly wrong! Steroids from Hell. Horrendous piercings. Bizarre brain modifications. Obscene amputations. Facial reconstruction. Self-mutilation. Implants. Chilling tales by some of the best horror and suspense writers today, determined to keep you fearful all night (and skittish during the…

Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

Editors: Weldon Burge First Published: 2012 Monstrous transplants. Appalling amputations. Bizarre implants. Nightmarish forms of body enhancements. Disturbing, perverse, often gut-wrenching stories–all between the covers of this anthology. Here are 20 tales by some of today’s best horror, suspense, and science fiction writers. The stories are not for those who are faint of heart or squeamish, or who are easily offended by nasty language, bloody…

Hackers

Editors: Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois First Published: 1996 This wide-ranging collection of cyberspace tales, featuring the most cutting-edge writers in science fiction, goes beyond the stereotypes of computer rogues and delves into the true heart—and art—of hackerdom. Featured Stories: Burning Chrome by William Gibson Spirit of the Night by Tom Maddox Blood Sisters by Greg Egan Rock On by Pat Cadigan The Pardoner’s Tale…

Live Without A Net

Editor: Lou Anders First Published: 2003 Imagine a future without cyberspace or without the Web or virtual reality. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn’t you know?   Today’s top masters of speculative fiction offer visions of futures near and far, of alternative histories, and journeys down roads not taken. What does await us at the…

Rock On

Editor: Paula Guran First Published: 2012 Kick out the jams with hot licks and fantastic riffs on rock and roll from the only kind of fiction that feeds the soul: science fiction and fantasy. Like rock, speculative fiction is larger than life, there’s no limit on where it can take you. And neither is ― even now ― fully respectable. Electrifying stories with the drive,…

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

Editor: Bruce Sterling First Published: 2014 With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive “cyberpunk” short fiction collection. Featured Stories: 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…

Altered States

Editors: Roy C Booth & Jorge Salgado-Reyes First Published: 2014 Take a flight of the imagination to near-future cyberpunk worlds, travel beyond the stars, and to divergent universes like and unlike our own. Travel to the enigmas of science and time…travel to the altered states of the mind. Featured Authors: Jorge Salgado-Reyes, C.J. Cherryh, John Shirley, Paul Levinson, William F. Wu, Malon Edwards, Cynthia Ward,…

Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution, & Evolution

Editor: Victoria Blake First Published: 2019 Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headlong into technological…

We Dare: An Anthology of Augmented Humanity (2018)

Editor: Chris Kennedy First Published: 2018 “Fifteen outstanding authors. Fifteen stories of augmented humanity!” All I need is an edge! As long as humans have competed with each other (for food, profit, and love), people have looked for ways to get an edge on the competition—how to be better, faster, and smarter than the opposition. With better science and technology, many things are now possible,…

Transmissions From Punktown

Editor: Brian M. Sammons First Published: 2018 The sci-fi megalopolis known as Punktown created by author Jeffrey Thomas has inspired countless readers and writers around the world, many creating their own Punktown stories as a result. Author Jeffrey Thomas’ world has inspired a new anthology of over 450 pages from Dark Regions Press. Featured Stories: “Dreaming the City” – Jeffrey Thomas “The Cyclops: Part One”…

Crash Code

Editor: Kristopher Triana First Published: 2020 “The pinnacle of technology meets the depths of depravity…” We build new technology—artificial limbs, neural interfaces, artificially intelligent sex dolls—and what do we get? Glitches. Malfunctions. Corruption. Crash Code is an anthology of cyberpunk horror, exploring 27 stories where human life depends on every single line of code running perfectly. A virtual reality game that refuses to be shut…

The Ultimate Cyberpunk

Editor: Pat Cadigan & Martin Greenberg First Published: 2004 In The Ultimate Cyberpunk, editor Pat Cadigan takes readers through the evolution of this influential science fiction genre, from the groundbreaking forefathers of the field such as Alfred Bester and Philip K. Dick, to the founding members of the cyberpunk movement, such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and forward through such innovators as Lewis Shiner…