Tachyon Publications has announced the table of contents for Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. The trade paperback is scheduled to be published in October.
The table of contents will include:
Introduction: “Hacking Cyberpunk” by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
“Bicycle Repairman” by Bruce Sterling
“Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland” by Gwyneth Jones
“How We Got Into Town and Out Again” by Jonathan Lethem
“Yeyuka” by Greg Egan
“The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry” by Pat Cadigan
“Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City” by William Gibson
“The Wedding Album” by David Marusek
“Daddy’s World” by Walter Jon Williams
“The Dog Said Bow-Wow” by Michael Swanwick
“Lobsters” by Charles Stross
“What’s Up, Tiger Lily” by Paul Di Filippo
“The Voluntary State” by Christopher Rowe
“Two Dreams on Trains” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Search Engine” by Mary Rosenblum
“When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth” by Cory Doctorow
In addition, between the stories throughout the book will be “The Kessel-Sterling Correspondence,” which are excerpts from a conversation between John Kessel and Bruce Sterling. As Kessel describes it: “In the spring of 1985, I wrote a letter to Bruce Sterling asking what all the fuss was about. Did he really detest the kind of fiction I liked as much as I had heard?
“Well, yes… he did, sort of.
“The correspondence got out of hand. For several years we hammered at each other back and forth through the postal service (this was before the Internet took off). Bruce’s energy was immense, his fertility of imagination imposing, his conviction of his own rightness daunting. I had my own moments. It was the most stimulating conversation of my writing career, and given my age and who I am today, I don’t think (to my regret) that it will ever come again.”
The publisher says it is taking pre-orders on its web site, although it’s not immediately obvious where the book is listed.
In other Tachyon news, they’ve announced several more upcoming titles. These include:
The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick (scheduled to be published in September 2007)
Shatterday by Harlan Ellison (September 2007)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (January 2008)
The New Weird Anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (February 2008)