What is unspoken in the world, in our gestures, in the whole enigmatic heral- dry of our behavior, our dreams, our sicknesses-does not all that speak, and if so in what language, and in obedience to what grammar?
Neil Easterbrook · 2016
Cyberpunk is dead. Or at least, most of its early proponents and practitioners have jumped ship, swimming back toward the mainstream. Those writers still aboard appear blocked. But in 1984, cyberpunk was SF's avant-garde, its newest, hardest new wave. In the movement's manifesto and most widely disseminated polemic, an introduction to the Mirrorshades anthology, Bruce Sterling wrote that cyberpunk is a cultural Petri dish where writhing gene