Cyberpunk & Cyberculture Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson

by Cavallaro, Dani

• ISBN13: 9780485006070
• ISBN10: 0485006073
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-13
• Publisher: Athlone Pr

Summary

Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.

Author Biography

Dani Cavallaro is a researcher at the University of Westminster

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A brief guide to the book	xvii
Introduction: Science fiction and cyberpunk	1	(22)
Cyberpunk and virtual technologies	23	(18)
Cyberpunk, technology and mythology	41	(31)
Technology and mythology: origins	41	(3)
Cyborgs	44	(8)
Myth and religion in cyberpunk	52	(11)
Fiction, theory and the language of science	63	(9)
Cyberpunk and the body	72	(37)
The cyberbody	72	(7)
Idoru: the body as personality construct	79	(4)
The ghost	83	(5)
The stranger	88	(4)
Burning Chrome and Mona Lisa Overdrive: the body as commodity	92	(13)
The doll	105	(4)
Cyberpunk, gender and sexuality	109	(24)
Technologies of the gendered subject	109	(12)
Gender roles in cyberpunk	121	(5)
Virtual sex	126	(7)
Cyberpunk and the city	133	(31)
Science and space	134	(6)
Digital maps: ON/OFF	140	(6)
Venice	146	(4)
Space and narrative structure	150	(14)
Cyberpunk and the Gothic	164	(51)
The uncanny	167	(5)
Layering and architecture	172	(12)
Families	184	(9)
Fashion	193	(5)
Time zones	198	(17)
Epilogue: Cyberpunk and memory	204	(11)
References	215	(22)
Guide to further reading	237	(4)
Bibliography	241	(10)
Index	251