The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26. Editor Jared Shurin tells File 770, “As with any attempt at a definitive collection, I suspect (and hope) it will provoke conversation!”

At over a thousand pages it is the largest anthology of the genre to date, representing a half-century of global cyberpunk, with authors from over two dozen countries.

Shurin’s table of contents includes Delany’s “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones”, and by anticipating the later cyberpunk movement that way Shurin makes a down payment on the debate.  

The U.S. edition can be preordered from a variety of sellers (see list here.) The UK edition is coming in 2024.

1. Yasser Abdellatif – “Younis in the Belly of the Whale” (2011) – translation by Robin Moger
2. K.C. Alexander – “Four Tons Too Late” (2014)
3. Madeline Ashby – “Be Seeing You” (2015)
4. Ryuko Azuma – “2045 Dystopia” (2018) – first translation by Marissa Skeels
5. Jacques Barcia – “Salvaging Gods” (2010)
6. Greg Bear – “Petra” (1982)
7. Steve Beard – “Retoxicity” (1998)
8. Bef – “Wonderama” (1998) – first translation by the the author
9. Bruce Bethke – “Cyberpunk” (1983)
10. Lauren Beukes – “Branded” (2003) 
11. Russell Blackford – “Glass Reptile Breakout” (1985)
12. Maurice Broaddus – “I Can Transform You” (2013)
13. Pat Cadigan – “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)
14. Myra Çakan – “Spider’s Nest” (2004) – translation by Jim Young
15. Beth Cato – “Apocalypse Playlist” (2020)
16. Suzanne Church – “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop” (2012)
17. Samuel R. Delany – “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” (1968)
18. Paul Di Filippo – “A Short Course in Art Appreciation” (1988)
19. Philip K. Dick – “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (1966)
20. Cory Doctorow – “0wnz0red” (2002)
21. Candas Jane Dorsey – “[Learning About] Machine Sex” (1988)
22. George Alec Effinger – “The World As We Know It” (1992)
23. Greg Egan – “Axiomatic” (1990)
24. Isabel Fall – “Helicopter Story” (2020)
25. Minister Faust – “Somatosensory Cortex Dog Mess You Up Big Time, You Sick Sack of S**T” (2021)
26. Fabio Fernandes – “WiFi Dreams” (2019) – translation by the author
27. Taiyo Fujii – “Violation of the TrueNet Security Act” (2013) – translation by Jim Hubbert
28. Ganzeer – “Staying Crisp” (2018)
29. William Gibson – “The Gernsback Continuum” (1981)
30. William Gibson and Michael Swanwick – “Dogfight” (1985)
31. Eileen Gunn – “Computer Friendly” (1989)
32. Omar Robert Hamilton – “Rain, Streaming” (2019) 
33. Karen Heuler – “The Completely Rechargeable Man” (2008)
34. Saad Hossain – “The Endless” (2020) 
35. Gwyneth Jones – “Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland” (1996)
36. Richard Kadrey – “Surfing the Khumbu” (2002)
37. Khalid Kaki – “Operation Daniel” (2016) – translation by Adam Talib
38. James Patrick Kelly – “Rat” (1986)
39. John Kessel – “The Last American” (2007)
40. Cassandra Khaw – “Degrees of Beauty” (2016)
41. Christian Kirchev – “File: the death of Designer D” (2009)
42. Aleš Kot – “A Life of Its Own” (2019) 
43. Nancy Kress – “With the Original Cast” (1982)
44. Naomi Kritzer – “Cat Pictures Please” (2015)
45. Lavanya Lakshminarayan – “Études” (2020)
46. David Langford – “comp.basilisk.faq” (1999)
47. Oliver Langmead – “Glitterati” (2017)
48. Fritz Leiber – “Coming Attraction” (1950)
49. Jean-Marc Ligny – “RealLife 3.0” (2014) – first translation by N.R.M. Roshak
50. Arthur Liu – “The Life Cycle of a Cyber Bar” (2021) – translation by Nathan Faries
51. Ken Liu – “Thoughts and Prayers” (2019)
52. Steven S Long – “Keeping Up with Mr Johnson” (2016)
53. M. Lopes da Silva – “Found Earworms” (2019)
54. James Lovegrove – “Britworld™” (1992)
55. Nick Mamatas – “Time of Day” (2002)
56. Phillip Mann – “An Old-Fashioned Story” (1989)
57. Lisa Mason – “Arachne” (1987)
58. Tim Maughan – “Flyover Country” (2016)
59. Ken MacLeod – “Earth Hour” (2011)
60. Paul J McAuley – “Gene Wars” (1991)
61. Sam J. Miller – “Feral Arcade Children of the American Northeast” (2021)
62. Misha – “Speed” (1988)
63. Janelle Monáe and Alaya Dawn Johnson – “The Memory Librarian” (2022)
64. Sunny Moraine – “I Tell Thee All, I Can No More” (2013)
65. Michael Moss – “Keep Portland Wired” (2020)
66. T.R. Napper – “Twelve Minutes to Vinh Quang” (2015)
67. Kim Newman – “SQPR” (1992)
68. Mandisi Nkomo – “Do Androids Dream of Capitalism and Slavery?” (2020)
69. Jeff Noon – “Ghost Codes of Sparkletown” (2011)
70. Brandon O’Brien – “fallenangel.dll” (2016)
71. Craig Padawer – “Hostile Takeover” (1985)
72. Victor Pelevin – “The Yuletide Cyberpunk Yarn, or Christmas_Eve-117.DIR.” (1996) – first translation by Alex Shvartsman
73. Harry Polkinhorn – “Consumimum Igni” (1990)
74. Gerardo Horacio Porcayo – “Ripped Images, Rusty Dreams” (1993) – first translation by the author
75. qntm – “Lena” (2021)
76. Jean Rabe – “Better Than” (2010)
77. Yurei Raita – “The Day a Computer Wrote a Novel” (2019) – translation by Marissa Skeels
78. Cat Rambo – “Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars” (2006)
79. Paul Graham Raven – “Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico” (2014)
80. Justina Robson – “The Girl Hero’s Mirror Says He’s Not the One” (2007)
81. Pepe Rojo – “Grey Noise” (1996) – translation by Andrea Bell
82. Nicholas Royle – “D.GO.” (1990)
83. Rudy Rucker – “Juicy Ghost” (2019) 
84. Erica Satifka – “Act of Providence” (2021)
85. Nisi Shawl – “I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer” (1989)
86. Lewis Shiner – “The Gene Drain” (1989)
87. John Shirley – “Wolves of the Plateau” (1988)
88. Zedeck Siew – “The White Mask” (2015) 
89. J.P. Smythe – “The Infinite Eye” (2017)
90. Neal Stephenson – “The Great Simoleon Caper” (1995)
91. Bruce Sterling – “Deep Eddy” (1993)
92. Bruce Sterling and Paul Di Filippo – “The Scab’s Progress” (2001)
93. Charles Stross – “Lobsters” (2001)
94. E.J. Swift – “Alligator Heap” (2016)
95. Wole Talabi – “Aboukela52” (2019)
96. Molly Tanzer – “The Real You™” (2018)
97. K.A. Teryna – “The Tin Pilot” (2021) – translation by Alex Shvartsman
98. Jeffrey Thomas – “Immolation” (2000)
99. Lavie Tidhar – “Choosing Faces” (2012)
100. James Tiptree Jr. – “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973)
101. Vauhini Vara – “Ghosts” (2021)
102. Marie Vibbert – “Electric Tea” (2019)
103. Corey J. White – “Exopunk’s Not Dead” (2019)
104. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne – “The State Machine” (2020) 
105. Neon Yang – “Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points” (2014) 
106. E. Lily Yu – “Darkout” (2016)
107. Yun Ko-eun – “P.” (2011) – first translation by Sean Lin-Halbert
108. Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – “wysiomg” (2016)