Recensori in anteprimaIan McDonald

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.

“…this anthology offers something to enjoy here for any cyberpunk enthusiast – especially those who like it urban, grimy, and dangerously plausible.” – Publishers Weekly

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

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Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk. Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan. From the introduction by Adrian McKinty & Stuart Neville: "Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles (1968–1998) dominated life in Ireland's second-biggest population centre, and during the darkest days of the conflict--in the 1970s and 1980s--riots, bombings, and indiscriminate shootings were tragically commonplace. The British army patrolled the streets in armoured vehicles and civilians were searched for guns and explosives before they were allowed entry into the shopping district of the city centre...Belfast is still a city divided... You can see Belfast's bloodstains up close and personal. This is the city that gave the world its worst ever maritime disaster, and turned it into a tourist attraction; similarly, we are perversely proud of our thousands of murders, our wounds constantly on display. You want noir? How about a painting the size of a house, a portrait of a man known to have murdered at least a dozen human beings in cold blood? Or a similar house-sized gable painting of a zombie marching across a postapocalyptic wasteland with an AK-47 over the legend UVF: Prepared for Peace--Ready for War. As Lee Child has said, Belfast is still 'the most noir place on earth.'"