Description: Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Desert of the Real / Larry McCaffery 1 Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio / Richard Kadrey and Larry McCaffery 17 Fiction and Poetry Beyond the Extinction of Human Life (from Empire of the Senseless) / Kathy Acker 33 From Crash / J.G. Ballard 41 Mother and I Would Like to Know (from The Wild Boys) / William S. Burroughs 44 Rock On / Pat Cadigan 48 Among the Blobs / Samuel R. Delany 56 From White Noise / Don DeLillo 63 From Neuromancer / William Gibson 65 Fistic Hermaphrodites / Rob Hardin 75 Microbes / Rob Hardin 76 Penetrabit: Slime Temples / Rob Hardin 77 nerve terminals / Rob Hardin 79 Max Headroom / Harold Jaffe 80 From Straight Fiction / Thom Jurek 85 The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche (from Metrophage) / Richard Kadrey 87 Office of the Future (from Dad's Nuke) / Marc Laidlaw 98 I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot (from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist) / Mark leyner 102 From Plus / Joseph McElroy 109 Wire Movement #9 / Misha 112 Wire for Two Tims / Misha 114 From Easy Travel to Other Planets / Ted Mooney 116 Frame 137 / Jim O'Barr 118 From The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon 122 From Software / Rudy Rucker 125 From Life During Wartime / Lucius Shepard 132 Stoked / Lewis Shiner 134 Wolves of the Plateau / John Shirley 139 Twenty Evocations / Bruce Sterling 154 The Marc Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu: 2-1-'16 (from Schismatrix) / Bruce Sterling 162 The Indigo Engineers (from The Rainbow Stories) / William T. Vollmann 168 Non-Fiction Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy / Steve Brown 173 The Automation of the Robot (from Simulations) / Jean Baudrillard 178 Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. 182 From Of Grammatology / Jacques Derrida 194 Yin and Yang Duke It Out / Joan Gordon 196 Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger 203 From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism / Fredric Jameson 219 Television and the Triumph of Culture (from The Postmodern Scene) / Arthur Kroker and David Cook 229 Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance / Brooks Landon 239 The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot / Timothy Leary 245 The Postmodern (from The Postmodern Condition) / Jean-Francois Lyotard 259 An Interview with William Gibson / Larry McCaffery 263 Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations / Larry McCaffery 286 POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM / Brian McHale 308 The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives / Tom Maddox 324 Frothing the Synaptic Bath / David Porush 331 Literary MTV / George Slusser 334 Preface from Mirrorshades / Bruce Sterling 343 On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF / Darko Suvin 349 The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades / Takayuki Tatsumi 366 Bibliography 375 Contributors 385

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