Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson

by Dani Cavallaro

Cyberpunk is the fiction of a culture saturated by electronic technology. Its vocabulary is the language of cybernetics, biotechnology, corporational greed and urban subcultures. Massively succesful in both book and film form, cyberpunk has redefined not only contemporary science fiction but also, through its capacity to anticipate technology and its cultural impact, analytical work in the social science and humanities.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction

258 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Dani Cavallaro is a freelance writer specializing in literary studies, critical and cultural theory and the visual arts. Her publications include The Gothic Vision<?em>, Critical and Cultural Theory and Cyberpunk and Cyberculture.

Reviews

[Stephanie Farnsworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slightly outdated with new and emerging biopunk discourse that separates it from some of the cyberpunk theory of recent decades. However, overall this is a very thorough and engaging read.

[Cameron Climie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cavallaro explores a number of interesting philosophical links within the cyberpunk genre - human enhancement and technology, virtual reality and myth - and some of those explorations are truly superb. but the piece is so dense with philosophy-speak that, for someone not highly educated in the subject, many chapters were close to unapproachable.

[Florin Pitea · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent work on cyberpunk and cyberculture. Highly recommended. For a detailed review, please visit my blog: http://tesatorul.blogspot.ro/2011/03/....

[Martin]

if youve got this book, and are done with it, send it to me!

[Dann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative, clever and intriguing. A blend of Gothic and SF theory. Enjoyable for the Gibson theorist.