Think of this as a poor man's Mirrorshades. It's filled with luminaries from the early Cyberpunks, including Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, and Neal Stephenson. A lot of the stories in this collection were originally printed in the late, lamented OMNI. ( )

Hackers is an eclectic mix of short stories about a techno-subculture called hackers. Most of the stories are written by well known and respected science fiction writers. Each story is prefaced with a short bio about the author and many of them are authors already on my Lust list. The list of stories is as follows:
"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
"Spirit of the Night" by Tom Maddox
"Blood Sisters" by Greg Egan (probably my favorite since I would have done the same thing had it been my sister.)
"Rock On" by Pat Cadigan
"The Pardoner's Tale" by Robert Silverberg ~ I liked this one a lot
"Living Will" by Alexander Jablokov
"Dogfight" by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
"Our Neural Chernobyl" by Bruce Sterling
"(Learning About) Sex Machine" by Candas Jane Dorsey
"Conversations With Michael" by Daniel Marcus
"Gene Wars" by Paul J McAuley
"Spew" by Neal Stephenson
"Tangents" by Greg Bear (weird!)

Favorite line: From "Living Will" by Alexander Jablokov, "Gerald set his drink down carefully and put his arm around his friend's shoulders, something he rarely did. And they sat there in the silent study, two old friends stuck at the wrong end of time" (p 111). This story in particular was very human and very sad. ( )