Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

'''Sterling, Bruce. Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology.''' New York: Arbor, 1986. New York: Ace, 1988. Rpt. Rob Latham, Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings, q.v.

In its time, an important statement by a primary polemicist for cyberpunk. Of continuing usefulness for its identification of the central themes of cyberpunk, including cyberpunk's relationship to technology and cyberpunk's use of the motif of the "invasion" of the human body and mind by technology (xiii).