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9780230621510

Cyberfiction After the Future

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230621510

  • ISBN10:

    0230621511

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-03-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Cyberfiction: After the Futureexplores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and cultureour world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneous capital flows, and immanent catastrophe. Economics fuses with technology to create a new kind of speculative fiction: cyberfiction. Paul Youngquist reveals the ways in which J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others, map a territory where information reigns supreme and the future is becoming a thing of the past.

Author Biography

Paul Youngquist is Professor of English at the University of Colorado.  He is the author of Madness and Blake’s Myth, Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism, as well as essays ranging from romantic to post-modern culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
Preface to Apocalypsep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xvii
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Speculative Futuresp. 3
Cyberfictionp. 31
Otherspace
Crash-Bodyp. 57
Score, Scan, Schizp. 77
Queer Sciencep. 105
Afterlives
The Space Machinep. 135
We Can Breed Youp. 159
Stealthp. 187
Notesp. 227
Works Citedp. 233
Indexp. 245
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