false 370160 1 The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson&rsquo;s pathbreaking novel <I>Neuromancer</I>. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in <I>Storming the Reality Studio, </I>marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde. <BR><BR>By bringing together original fiction by well-known contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), <I>Storming the Reality Studio</I> reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture.<BR>What emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age. <BR>A rich opporunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art. <BR><BR><I>Selected Fiction contributors: </I> Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William Vollman<BR><BR><I>Selected Non-Fiction contributors:</I> Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi 360134 12 1992 Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction total:34|5:11|4:11|3:10|2:2|1:0| 34 133 68 1 2 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:17:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:23:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 07:36:05 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 07:36:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Oct 18 14:41:48 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 08:48:39 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 08:49:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 12:55:12 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 12:55:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 27 02:19:37 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 02:19:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 11:43:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 11:43:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 14 23:07:22 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 23:07:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 26 14:29:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 14:29:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 05:47:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 05:47:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 01:21:49 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 01:21:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 17 20:45:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 20:45:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 20 05:21:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 05:21:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 11 07:45:33 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 07:45:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 04 15:13:36 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 15:13:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 12:28:54 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:28:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 08 12:06:07 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 12:06:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 31 20:16:53 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 20:16:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 27 04:26:14 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 04:26:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 09:11:13 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 09:11:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 21 20:55:28 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 20:55:28 -0700 2009