Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. This book is set in a world where new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets.

In SYNNERS the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with reality is incidental.

A classic novel from one of the founders and mainstays of the cyberpunk movement

A collection of all original stories inspred by the Fermi Paradox, written by some of science fiction's biggest names and scientists, with an introduction by the astronomer Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory, Greenwich). Full contents: 1.Introduction by Marek Kukula 2.Catching Rays - Dave Clements 3.The Big Next - Pat Cadigan 4.Baedecker's Fermi - Adam Roberts 5.Zeta Reticuli - Paul Cornell 6.The Ambulance Chaser - Tricia Sullivan 7.Lost to Their Own Devices - Adrian Tchaikovsky 8.In the Beginning - Gerry Webb 9.The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation - Paul di Filippo 10.Stella by...

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