Paul Di Filippo On Cyberpunks In 2009

I really enjoy Paul Di Filippo’s review column in the Barnes & Noble Review. He seems to review books that I really should read, but somehow haven’t quite yet.

The latest columns reviews the latest novels by John Shirley (Bleak History),  Rudy Rucker (Hylozoic) and Bruce Sterling (The Caryatids) and talks about their influence on cyberpunk and how they’ve changed as writers. And does it with some style…

Warmhearted, big-spirited, grimly humorous, cynical yet hopeful, resembling Ursula LeGuin's famous "Nine Lives" retooled into a rap song by M.I.A., then condensed into a Twitter feed to amuse Somali pirates, Sterling's newest proves that when a cyberpunk is once truly plugged into the zeitgeist, the mere passage of twenty-five years does nothing to degrade his performance, relevance or wisdom.