Night, Rain, and Neon – a Cyberpunk Anthology

I think I mentioned some news on the short fiction front, and here is the first of three that I can announce. I have a story, Digital Salt, in the forthcoming Night, Rain, and Neon anthology published by NewCon Press.

The story has some parallels to Repo Virtual, so if you wanted something new in a similar vein, this might tide you over, or if you wanted a slab of new cyberpunk from a bunch of fantastic writers, you could do much worse than this anthology.

From the preorder page:

Released on July 1st 2022, to coincide with the date William Gibson’s genre-defining novel Neuromancer was originally released in 1984, Night, Rain, and Neon is a collection of all new stories written by some of the sharpest and most insightful authors of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk fiction around, curated by editor Michael Cobley.

 

“Back in the mid-80s William Gibson remarked that at one point he saw science fiction as a handy tool that he could use to pry open the cranium of the embryonic digital zeitgeist and do a bit of rewiring. Since then, numerous waves of tech, eco-awareness, politics, music, games, and smart gizmos (wearable and driveable) have washed over and through us. Our dwellings have gone from shells veined with broadband wiring to safehouses infused with plumes of wireless connection while our phones speak and ping and offer oblations to the greater networks that enfold us all.” – Michael Cobley

 

Come see what the near future might hold…

 

Contents:

Introduction by Michael Cobley

Hello, Goodbye – Stewart Hotston

Four Green Fields – Ian McDonald

All The Precious Years – Al Robertson

Forever in Scotland – Callum McSorley

Assets – Keith Brooke & Eric Brown

The Still Small Voice – Louise Carey

Mindstrings – Jeremy Szal

Tabula Rasa – Danie Ware

Collision Detection – Tim Maughan

We Appreciate Power – Gavin Smith

A Game Of Clones – Justina Robson

Accumulated Damage – Simon Morden

The Thirteenth Clone Of Casimir Ivanovitch – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Elijah Of The 1000 Faces – Gary Gibson

VR Enclave – DA Xiaolin Spires

Digital Salt – Corey J White

Terms And Conditions – Joseph Elliott-Coleman

The Goruden-Mairu Job – T.R. Napper

About the Authors

 

Available as an A5 hardbacks and a special edition hardback, signed by all the authors, limited to just 100 numbered copies.

Preorders are open now.