Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica

Cyberpunk anti-heroes face global conspiracies, misused government R&D, thugs, drugs, true love, artificial intelligence, and vengeful sexbots under this high-stakes collection's double-edged blade of sci-fi and sex.

Wetware explicitly shows how hot near-future, "high tech low life" sex really is when it's spiked with all the glittering and frightening possibilities of cyberpunk. The hackers, transhumans, androids, pop stars, armed revolutionaries, government contractors and more in this seven-story, anthology find that sex is hotter with hacked, stolen and renegade tech -- especially when there's risk involved. Seven complex stories depict near-term, crime-noir cyberpunk futures packed with hacker romance, android one-night stands, helper-bot sexual revenge, experiments in BDSM and transhumanism, gender-swap seductions, and bathroom-stall brainwave-hacker conquests.

Some erotica writers have ideas, others have visions. Love is a side-effect of stolen, weaponized biotech in "Bishop to King's Pawn, Two" by Thomas S. Roche. In "Synthetic Skin: by Kendra Jarry, a government contractor steals secret field hardware for the sole purpose of seduction. A brainwave hacker's conquest in a club bathroom stall takes a turn in Cecilia Tan's "Rough, Trade."

Lines are crossed and re-crossed when the household helper bot in Devyn X. Sands' "Never Say No" has had enough of her owner's perversions. "Sixty-Five Night" by Stephen Stavros unpredictably depicts a dangerous AI experiment that pushes one woman into a seedy neon ghetto for high-risk public encounter -- under the shadow of a murder conspiracy.

Cyberpunk's sexuality has always been transgressive and prescient; this collection takes the genre's revolutionary tradition to the next level. Wetware delivers a tech-savvy, philosophically-rich, erotic anthology artfully spiked with cyberpunk-themed cocktail recipes and recommendations for sexy cyberpunk films, books, and anime. Wetware isn't a typical erotica collection, nor is it a typical sci-fi anthology. It's also a rich celebration of hacker and cyberpunk culture, within the hallmarks of this culture's rich and diverse sexualities and genders.

Blue's introduction "Coded in Spirals and Pheromones" features story excerpts in an essay examining cyberpunk sexuality, and how our fantasies of a gilded cyberpunk future have arrived -- while at the same time, something has gone horribly wrong with the way technology was supposed to empower us. Blue explains exactly why "it is our growing sense of things gone terribly wrong that gives the stories here their power, anchored in one of cyberpunk's most defiant agents of change: Sex."

This book contains adult situations, including BDSM, domestic discipline, gender fluidity in sexual situations, backdoor and oral play, power exchange, role-play, spanking, bisexual men, and explicit scenes. The book also depicts non-monogamous relationships and sexual activity (and penetration) involving more than two individuals.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Coded in Spirals and Pheromones by Violet Blue
Bishop to King's Pawn, Two by Thomas S. Roche
Liquid Exploits: The Gibson Engine
Rough, Trade by Cecilia Tan
Say Cyber One More Time: Sexy Cyberpunk Films
Dangerous Circuitry by N.T. Morley
Liquid Exploits: Tschunk!
Grinding by Janine Ashbless
Say Cyber One More Time: Adult Cyberpunk Books
Never Say No by Devyn X. Sands
Liquid Exploits: Zero Couth
Sixty-Five Night by Stephen Stavros
Say Cyber One More Time: (Sexier) Cyberpunk Anime
Synthetic Skin by Kendra Jarry