Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Desert of the Real / Larry McCaffery 1
Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio /
Richard Kadrey and Larry McCaffery 17
Fiction and Poetry
Beyond the Extinction of Human Life (from Empire of the Senseless)
/ Kathy Acker 33
From Crash / J.G. Ballard 41
Mother and I Would Like to Know (from The Wild Boys) / William S.
Burroughs 44
Rock On / Pat Cadigan 48
Among the Blobs / Samuel R. Delany 56
From White Noise / Don DeLillo 63
From Neuromancer / William Gibson 65
Fistic Hermaphrodites / Rob Hardin 75
Microbes / Rob Hardin 76
Penetrabit: Slime Temples / Rob Hardin 77
nerve terminals / Rob Hardin 79
Max Headroom / Harold Jaffe 80
From Straight Fiction / Thom Jurek 85
The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche (from Metrophage) / Richard Kadrey
87
Office of the Future (from Dad's Nuke) / Marc Laidlaw 98
I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot (from My Cousin, My
Gastroenterologist) / Mark leyner 102
From Plus / Joseph McElroy 109
Wire Movement #9 / Misha 112
Wire for Two Tims / Misha 114
From Easy Travel to Other Planets / Ted Mooney 116
Frame 137 / Jim O'Barr 118
From The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon 122
From Software / Rudy Rucker 125
From Life During Wartime / Lucius Shepard 132
Stoked / Lewis Shiner 134
Wolves of the Plateau / John Shirley 139
Twenty Evocations / Bruce Sterling 154
The Marc Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu: 2-1-'16
(from Schismatrix) / Bruce Sterling 162
The Indigo Engineers (from The Rainbow Stories) / William T.
Vollmann 168
Non-Fiction
Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy / Steve Brown
173
The Automation of the Robot (from Simulations) / Jean Baudrillard
178
Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. 182
From Of Grammatology / Jacques Derrida 194
Yin and Yang Duke It Out / Joan Gordon 196
Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism / Veronica
Hollinger 203
From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism /
Fredric Jameson 219
Television and the Triumph of Culture (from The Postmodern Scene) /
Arthur Kroker and David Cook 229
Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance / Brooks Landon 239
The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot / Timothy Leary
245
The Postmodern (from The Postmodern Condition) / Jean-Francois
Lyotard 259
An Interview with William Gibson / Larry McCaffery 263
Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations /
Larry McCaffery 286
POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM / Brian McHale 308
The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's
Mechanist/Shaper Narratives / Tom Maddox 324
Frothing the Synaptic Bath / David Porush 331
Literary MTV / George Slusser 334
Preface from Mirrorshades / Bruce Sterling 343
On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF / Darko Suvin 349
The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades / Takayuki Tatsumi 366
Bibliography 375
Contributors 385
"[A] brilliant new compiliation of fiction and nonfiction . . .
that you've just "got" to read. . . . [The] thesis is simple as a
whitehot razor blade: we don't "read" science fiction, we "live
"it. . . . You can't help getting excited about this collection.
You just can't."
--Lance Olsen," Mondo 2000"
"[A] brilliant new compiliation of fiction and nonfiction . . .
that you've just "got" to read. . . . [The] thesis is simple as a
whitehot razor blade: we don't "read" science fiction, we "live
"it. . . . You can't help getting excited about this collection.
You just can't."
--Lance Olsen," Mondo 2000"
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