Mirrorshades question 1: The collection
What did you think of the stories? What was your favourite, what didn't you like, what did you think was notable.
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What did you think of the stories? What was your favourite, what didn't you like, what did you think was notable.
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My favourite was easily the first story, the one by William Gibson, which mightily impressed me in terms of writing and imaginative sweep. I also quite liked two Lewis Shiner stories. I don’t have much experience with the author, though he does have some novels which have garnered acclaim. I just picked up one yesterday (Deserted Cities of the Heart) at the Fantastic Pulps show at the Merrill Science Fiction library here in Toronto).
I think in general I liked the least ‘cyberpunk’ feeling stories the most. Cyberpunk is not really my favourite genre - something about its sci-fi noir mood feels pretentious, and I find tech-prodigy characters to be rather trite.
My thoughts on the stories:
Solstice seemed ok at the time of reading but I also couldn't work out what the point was of basing it around Stonehenge, nor the function of the historical flashback bits.
OK - I really liked Gernsbach Continuum - fascinating idea, where reality was malleable, and consensus defined 'real reality'! Rock On was cool - the author saw what would actually happen to music except she didn't realize Rock really would die and become irrelevant. 400 Boys was interesting. I found Petra fascinating, but is it actually cyberpunk? Loved it though! Freezone... Freezone was horrific like swimming in a sea of molasses. Mozart in Mirrorshades was cool - - the idea of raping other timelines for raw materials was sick and all too believable. The rest was meh.