I loved Terry Bisson's _Smart Meat_ short in _Bears Discover Fire_. Good company!

Great blurb: "as funny as humanity's efforts to improve itself"!

Great blurbs, and I love that cover. Whoever did that artwork at 4W8W deserves a pay raise. I'm really looking forward to this. Do you have a TOC list yet?

I do indeed:

Table of Contents

The Kingdom of Magic Junk, by Bruce Sterling
Craphound
A Place So Foreign
All Day Sucker
To Market, To Market: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey
Return to Pleasure Island
Shadow of the Mothaship
Home Again, Home Again
The Super Man and the Bugout
0wnz0red

You've chosen some of my all-time favorite stories. Mothaship is a great favorite but I like them all. The guys who think the only thing you can write is geekspeak wonders are going to be amazed. Can't wait to get it.

Very cool cover. Love the alien hand.

Will this one be free as well? ;-)

Kidding. I will buy this along with all your other work plus the new Kelly Clarkson CD as soon as I get some spare cash.

I'll be doing a Creative Commons release of 6 of the 9 stories.

I'm glad to hear that, Cory; that gives me an internal excuse to actually buy the book. Otherwise, I'm can't justify having it taking up space in my house, since i can just jam it onto a hard drive instead. At San Francisco land prices, each book one owns essentially has an associated monthly rental fee based on the space it takes up.

mahlen

I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die
Had he but known such a-squared cos 2(thi)!
        --Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, "The Cyberiad"

I note, lost admist the noise "Introduction by Bruce Sterling". This is, well, completey unsurpising. :)

I don't know what mojo you have, Cory, but you are batting 1.000 on covers.

Fabulous cover. Manages to be a grabber and subtle at the same time. Cory owes the designer a big sloppy kiss.