Fiction 2000 : cyberpunk and the future of narrative
Interdisciplinary in perspective, the essays consider the origins of cyberpunk, the appropriation of its conventions by the mass media, the literature's paradoxical retrogressive/iconoclastic nature, cyberpunk's affinities to and deviations from both traditional science fiction and postmodernist literature, the parameters and components of the cyberpunk canon, and the movement's future course. Some essays are theoretical, but all are grounded in works familiar to serious science-fiction readers: "Neuromancer", "Frontera", "Deserted Cities of the Heart", "Islands in the Net", "Great Sky River", the "Mirrorshades" anthology, and others; cyberpunk TV and cinema like the Max Headroom programmes, "Blade Runner", and "Tron"; and precursory literature, including "Frankenstein", "Le Roman de l'avenir", "Ralph 124C 41 +" and "A Clockwork Orange."
Print Book, English, ©1992
University of Georgia Press, Athens, ©1992