Fiction 2000

Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative

by Alida Allison, Brooks Landon, Carol McGuirk, Chuck Etheridge, David Porush, Eric S. Rabkin, Frances Bonner, Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, Gregory Benford, István Csicsery-Rónay, John Christie, John Huntington, Lance Olsen, Lewis Shiner, Paul Alkon, Robert Donahoo, Ruth Curl, Terri Frongia, Tom Shippey

Curated by George Slusser, Tom Shippey

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Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millenium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals, and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature.

Interdisciplinary in perspective, the essays consider the origins of cyberpunk, the appropriation of its conventions by the mass media, and the literature's paradoxical retrogressive/iconoclastic nature. Also examined are the cyberpunk's affinities to and deviations from both traditional science fiction and postmodernist literature, the parameters and components of the cyberpunk canon, and the movment's future course.

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