As if a TK DreamPunk issue wasn't enough, there's an anthology on the horizon, too. Spearheaded by aficionado CliffJonesJr, Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology is certain to blow all our minds.

Courtesy of CliffJonesJr's website:

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.

Millennia in the making, the time has come for the first-ever anthology: Mirrormaze.

The back-cover blurb:

We 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.

Come navigate a labyrinth of visions, illusions, nightmares, and fantasies. Explore the nascent genre of dreampunk with 22 of its finest authors as they examine and transform the dreamscapes that we call our lives. Get lost among the twists and turns, ascending to the upper limits of both wonder and dread.

Do you dare enter the Mirrormaze?

Look for Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology, out December 2020!