A review by misspalah
Cyberpunk: Malaysia by Terence Toh, Sek Han Foo, Zedeck Siew, Rafil Elyas, Sharmilla Ganesan, Anna Tan, Kris Williamson, Angeline Woon, Tina Isaacs, Ted Mahsun, Tariq Kamal, Ai-May Chin, Adiwijaya Iskandar, Zen Cho, William Tham Wai Liang

4.0

Is it cyberpunk? Some of it are close enough. Is it engaging and thrilling? I'd say majority of the featured stories indeed good. I am surprised to see the low rating by some of few readers but based on their review, i get why they gave such rating. It really is the matter of individual's preferences. I picked up this book because i just finished watching Black Mirror Netflix series last month. I don't expect it to be amazing and mind boggling like the TV show but yeah, this book has a few moments that brought me back to the certain black mirror's scenes. The first 2 stories didn't grip me at all. I decided to move on to the 3rd story and i decided if it's still lacking, I wanted to give up reading this book. Fortunately, the 3rd story managed to lure me back in. Overall, I'm rating this as 4 out 5 stars . People may not enjoy it as much as i did but i glad i bought this on Google playbook.

Here's my favorite list of stories :
1. Personal by Sharmilla Ganesan
2. Attack of the spambots by Terrence Toh
3. What the andromaids read at night by Ted Mahsun
4. Kakak by William Tham Wai Liang
5. October 11 by Chin Ai May
6.The White Mask by Zedeck Siew
7. Extracts from DMZINE by Foo Sek Han

The rest of the stories didn't sit well with me. I didn't despise them but i didnt enjoy them either.

Sidenote: I couldn't help but notice how "Tanah Firdaus" resembles the concept of High Rise (both book and movie) but I could be wrong though.