CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA is out in the world! I’m really excited about this anthology and hope people will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

(Although I am never editing another anthology. It is TOO MUCH WORK. Hats off to the editors of the world.)

Here’s the Table of Contents:

Intro / Zen Cho

Underneath Her Tudung / Angeline Woon

Codes / Anna Tan

Personal / Sharmilla Ganesan

Attack of The Spambots / Terence Toh

ONE HUNDRED YEARS: Machine / Rafil Elyas

What the Andromaid Reads at Night / Ted Mahsun

KAKAK / William Tham Wai Liang

The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall / Kris Williamson

The Twins / Adiwijaya Iskandar

October 11 / Chin Ai-May

Undercover in Tanah Firdaus / Tina Isaacs

Unusual Suspects / Tariq Kamal

The White Mask / Zedeck Siew

We launched the book at Cooler Lumpur to a standing room only audience, with most of the authors in attendance:

The cover of the book was also revealed for the first time at the launch. In a first for a Fixi book (er, apart from mine), the paperback and ebook have different covers, though the content is the same.

The print cover is simply a mirror. Why? Because our cyber experience is increasingly customised — at its simplest level, the ads and promoted posts you see are based on your own browsing history. So when you look directly at the cover, you will see your face leh. The ebook cover is “Cyberpunk Malaysia” spelt out several times in binary. The contents are exactly the same.

Cool, right? Here’s what the publisher says about the covers:

And here’s the blurb on the back of the book:

Cyberpunk as you’ve never seen it before… Science fiction is all about outrageous ideas. Nice Malay girls breaking the rules. Censorship. Brain drain. Moral policing. Migrant exploitation. All the stuff of fiction, obviously. But these 14 short stories take it one step further. The nice Malay girls are cyborgs. The spambots are people. The brains have drained into cyberspace, and the censorship is inside your head. Welcome to CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA.

You can buy the ebook now for US$3.90 on Google Play and Smashwords (other vendors to follow). If you prefer dead tree books, you can buy the print version from Fixi if you’re in Malaysia, or pre-order from Amazon.com if you’re outside Malaysia. And/or you can enter a couple of giveaways for a chance to win the print version!

I’m giving away 1 copy via Rafflecopter — you can sign up RIGHT HERE (no geographical limitations):

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Edited to add: I am also giving away 2 copies via GoodReads — enter below! Open worldwide. You’ll need a GoodReads account.

Note that the giveaway copies are the print version with the reflective cover. Both giveaways close on 22 June — enter and tell all your friends!

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