Mirrormaze A Dreampunk Anthology

From Alice to Don Quixote to Gilgamesh and back into prehistory, dreams have always played a special role in storytelling. In modern times, we find ourselves caught in an explosion of technology whose ramifications confound our understanding of the natural world, the real world. Never before has reality felt so plastic, so unreal.
The crystallization of cyberpunk in the 1980s (heralded by the film Blade Runner, the novel Neuromancer, and the anthology Mirrorshades) led to a variety of “punk” genres with little in common other than a certain ineffable feeling: a sense of wonder at the power of human contrivance mingled with an overwhelming dread of the same.
We now find ourselves in a very strange place. Technology is embedded so deeply in our lives that it no longer feels separate; it’s taken for granted, like breathing. Whatever can be imagined can be experienced, if not in the “real” world then somewhere else. Somewhere better. This is our new reality. We live inside our heads, in our dreams.
Millennia in the making, the time has come for the first-ever dreampunk anthology: Mirrormaze.

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Stories Included
Author | Story | Word Count |
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Alex Pilalis | “Hidden Features” | 4,500 |
“Nightmare’s End” | 2,600 | |
Anna Tizard | “Kiss of Fire” | 2,900 |
Catherine Dufour | “Alice Under Marmalade Skies” | 3,700 |
Charles C. Mitchell | “Domestic Animals I Have Known” | 2,100 |
Cliff Jones Jr. | “A Bottle of Jinn” | 4,500 |
“Angel in the Cave” | 6,200 | |
“Dorothy in the Land of Poppies” | 1,800 | |
“Pipe Dream” | 600 | |
“So Long” | 2,600 | |
Courtney LoCicero | “The Future Is Milk” | 1,100 |
“Teacup Koi” | 1,200 | |
David Michael Williams | “Drifters” | 5,900 |
David Pierre | “Transmigration” | 6,000 |
Dez Schwartz | “Thatcher Maugden and the Dream Witch” | 3,600 |
Elizabeth Roderick | “Happy Birthday, Tinkerbell” | 2,000 |
Jeb R. Sherrill | “Sleepwalker” | 1,600 |
“Somnium” | 7,700 | |
Jim Hardison | “The End of Michael Clement” | 5,600 |
L. B. Shimaira | “Visual Snow” | 2,400 |
M. Crane Hana | “Two Roads” | 3,300 |
Michael D. Nadeau | “Walking in Dreams” | 2,200 |
Ragnar Martinson | “Chrome, Reflected” | 2,100 |
Shaun Allan | “Buffering” | 7,600 |
Stephen Coghlan | “Flight of the Universe” | 4,100 |
Steven R. Brandt | “Martian Spirit Quest” | 4,000 |
Tessa B. Dick | “The Mirror Cracked” | 2,000 |
Thomas Fortenberry | “The Dragon’s Nest” | 5,100 |
Yelena Calavera | “Origin” | 5,200 |