Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction

by Sabine Heuser

Virtual Geographies is the first detailed study to offer a working definition of cyberpunk within the postmodern force field. Cyberpunk emerges as a new generic cluster within science fiction, one that has spawned many offspring in such domains as film, music, and feminism. Its central features are its adherence to a version of virtual space and a deconstructivist, punk attitude towards (high) culture, modernity, the human body and technology, from computers to prosthetics.

302 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003