Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headl...

Chosen for the 2016 Silicon Valley Reads program."Parzybok does this thing where you think, 'this is fun!' and then you are charmed, saddened, and finally changed by what you have read. It's like jujitsu storytelling."—Maureen F. McHugh, author of After the ApocalypseIn drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal truckload of water to those in need. Nicknamed Maid Marian—real name: Renee, a twenty-...

—This is the first debut novel Small Beer has published so we will push to get it in any seasonal round-ups. —Parzybok will do a reading tour. He is well-known in the Portland area, a literary hotbed featuring Tin House, Powell's, and many other literary organizations. —Parzybok is the brain behind numerous eccentric and successful projects which have become nation-wide phenomena, including Gumball Poetry, which places poetry gumball machines in cafes, bookshops, and galleries around the c...