{"id":381,"date":"2007-03-13T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2007-03-14T08:31:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:31:21","slug":"dark-lords-of-cyberpunk-sore-vexed-at-kessel-and-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/dark-lords-of-cyberpunk-sore-vexed-at-kessel-and-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Lords of Cyberpunk Sore Vexed At Kessel and Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Shirley and I exchanged some email, sharing our annoyance at being passed over by John Kessel <\/a>and James Patrick Kelly <\/a>for their anthology, Rewired: The New Cyberpunk Anthology<\/em>, due out from Tachyon in October, 2007. As if K & K ever really “got” cyberpunk. [Picture below shows me being vexed.]<\/p>\n

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Suggested alternate title for K & K’s book, were it a music compilation:
\n Pete Seeger and Mel Torme Present: Woo Hoo! Punk Rock For The 21st Century<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Brooding with Shirley (we\u2019re good at that), the same old feelings that I had in the early 1980s came welling up. Excluded. Defiant. Nobody ever put it better than the Clash in \u201cGarageland.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Back in the garage with my bullshit detector
\nCarbon monoxide making sure it’s effective
\nPeople ringing up making offers for my life
\nBut I just wanna stay in the garage all night<\/p>\n

We’re a garage band
\nWe come from garageland<\/p>\n

Meanwhile things are hotting up in the West End alright
\nContracts in the offices, groups in the night
\nMy bummin’ slummin’ friends have all got new boots
\nAn’ someone just asked me if the group would wear suits<\/p>\n

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I don’t wanna hear about what the rich are doing
\nI don’t wanna go to where the rich are going
\nThey think they’re so clever, they think they’re so right
\nBut the truth is only known by guttersnipes<\/p>\n

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Enough of that. I actually like Kessel, he\u2019s an old friend, and from the little I\u2019ve seen of Kelly, he\u2019s a good guy, too. Maybe their anthology is great—but if you can\u2019t be unfair and resentful in a blog, then where else? A wheel\u2019s gotta squeak. Maybe some day K & K will edit a Transrealism <\/em>anthology and if I don\u2019t start bitching right now, they\u2019ll leave me out of that too!<\/p>\n

Well, hey, it\u2019s just a story anthology. I can be bigger than that. After all, my cyberpunk novel Postsingular <\/em>will be coming out in October, 2007, too. <\/p>\n

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Further consolation: a new issue of FLURB <\/a><\/em> is coming soon. I have some good pieces lined up by John Shirley, Nick Herbert, Kris Saknussem, Mac Tonnies, and Paul DiFilippo. For my own contribution, I might run a little piece about a telepathic stoner gang called The Big Pig Posse, or possibly a story about Alan Turing\u2019s murder by the British Secret Service. Not that there\u2019s anything cyberpunk about that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Shirley and I exchanged some email, sharing our annoyance at being passed over by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly for their anthology, Rewired: The New Cyberpunk Anthology, due out from Tachyon in October, 2007. As if K & K ever really “got” cyberpunk. [Picture below shows me being vexed.] Suggested alternate title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}