Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology

✍ Scribed by CJ Cherryh; Jorge Salgado-Reyes; Roy C. Booth; Paul Levinson

• Publisher: Indie Authors Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 095711303X

✦ Synopsis

Take a flight of the imagination to near-future cyberpunk worlds, travel beyond the stars, and to divergent universes like and unlike our own. Travel to the enigmas of science and time…travel to the altered states of the mind.
Stories by upcoming and established cyberpunk/sci- fi authors, curated by Roy C Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes.

This anthology represents the very first publication of science fiction by Indie Authors Press.

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Review

**WINNER **in the following categories of the 17th Annual Preditors & Editors Awards: Best Anthology (Honorable Mention, 4th); Best Cover Art (Honorable Mention, 3rd); Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story ("Extremum" by R. Thomas Riley and Roy C. Booth, Honorable Mention, 2nd); Best Publisher (Honorable mention, 7th); and Best Editor.

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_Altered States is a cyberpunk anthology whose stories broaden the horizon of what is usually thought of as subgenre with tight borders. The fifteen stories inside range from the well-defined tropes, to the experimental, to everything in between. Nine are reprints, and six are original to this anthology...
_ Altered States is a great anthology to add to your collection whether you prefer cyberpunk specifically or science fiction in general. I highly recommend it.Best to read while listening to: the soundtracks to Blade Runner and Johnny Mnemonic** ***. Also throw some Atari Teenage Riot into the mix.
--- Scott M. Sandridge, SpecMusicMuse ***

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About the Author

ROY C. BOOTH is an author, poet, essayist, screenwriter, game designer, editor, and comedian with over thirty books and fifty short stories in publication, either in his own name or under his Evil Pseudonym. As an internationally awarded playwright, Roy has had 57 stage plays published with 800+ professional and amateur productions of his work in 28 countries and in ten languages to date. His more recent speculative fiction books in release include Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Man-Made Vacuum (w/. Nicholas Johnson, Harren Press), The Flesh of Fallen Angels (w/. R. Thomas Riley, Grand Mal Press, also available as an audio book from Audible.com), and The One: Children of Destiny (w/. P. A. Copeland, J. Ashton Ellington Press, Best YA Book winner of the 2013 Preditors & Editor Readers Choice Awards).

JORGE SALGADO-REYES is a Chilean and British sci-fi/cyberpunk author, private investigator and photographer. Born in Temuco, Chile, Salgado-Reyes left his country of birth at age seven in 1975 with his family driven into exile by the Pinochet dictatorship. Subsequently brought up in the United Kingdom, he changed residence frequently with his family as a child. Salgado-Reyes became somewhat of a loner who read science fiction from an early age. After spending his adolescence in Mozambique, he returned to the UK where he completed his education.
In 2011, Salgado-Reyes began writing his first novel, The Smoke in Death s Eye, but has yet to finish it. It combines elements of cyberpunk and hardboiled detective fiction. It features the antihero Ángel Castillo and is set in London. Author Paul Dorset interviewed Salgado-Reyes in 2012 where he discussed his novel saying, "This is a cyberpunk/thriller of a novel, geographically set in the smoke (i.e. London) about a 150 years in a dystopian future. The protagonist is a private investigator whose agency is tasked with investigating a serial killer. The novel starts with the serial killer stalking and interrogating his victim (who dies as a result of the interrogation) in a derelict building in a suburb of south London. This victim is not the killer's first, with the killings going back for decades.