Critical Discussions of Cyberpunk

Anthologies/ Collections of Essays

• Derby,-Mark (ed.) Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (1993 Fall)

• Slusser,-George (ed. & introd.) Shippey,-Tom (ed.) Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Athens : U of Georgia P, 1992. 303 pp.

• Storming the reality studio : a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction. Edited by Larry McCaffery. Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.

• Mississippi Review 47/48 (16.2-3). Ed. Larry McCaffrey. 1988.

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Articles

• Harper,-Mary-Catherine. “ Incurably Alien Other: A Case for Feminist Cyborg Writers.” Science-fiction-studies 22.3 (1995 Nov): 399-420.

• Cadora,-Karen. “ Feminist Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction-Studies 22.3 (1995 Nov): 357-72.

• Morton,-Donald. “Birth of the Cyberqueer.” PMLA: 110.3 (1995 May): 369-81.

• Booker,-M.-Keith. “ Technology, History, and the Postmodern Imagination: The Cyberpunk Fiction of William Gibson.” Arizona-Quarterly 50.4 (1994 Winter) 63-87.

• Balsamo,-Anne. “Feminism for the Incurably Informed.” 125-56 IN Dery-Mark (ed.). Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Durham : Duke UP, 1994. 349 pp. -- About Pat Cadigan’s Synners.

• Csicsery-Ronay,-Istvan,-Jr. “ An Elaborate Suggestion.” Science-Fiction-Studies 20.3 (1993 Nov): 457-64. About cyberpunk’s relation to postmodernism.

• Landon,-Brooks. “Hypertext and Science Fiction.” Science-Fiction-Studies 20.3 (1993 Nov): 449-56.

• Latham,-Rob. “Cyberpunk = Gibson = Neuromancer.” Science-Fiction-Studies 20.2 (1993 July): 266-72.

• Sponsler,-Claire. “Beyond the Ruins: The Geopolitics of Urban Decay and Cybernetic Play.” Science-Fiction-Studies 20.2 (1993 July): 251-65.

• Springer,-Claudia. “Sex, Memories, and Angry Women.” South-Atlantic-Quarterly 92.4 (1993 Fall): 713-33.

• Davis,-Erik. “Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information.” South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (1993 Fall): 585-616.

• Sobchack,-Vivian. “New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000.” South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (1993 Fall): 569-84.

• Frongia,-Terri Allison,-Alida. “ 'We're on the Eve of 2000': Writers and Critics Speak Out on Cyberpunk, HyperCard, and the (New?) Nature of Narrative.” 279-92 IN Slusser-George (ed. & introd.); Shippey-Tom (ed.). Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Athens : U of Georgia P, 1992. 303 pp.

• Rabkin,-Eric-S. “Undecidability and Oxymoronism.” 262-78 IN Slusser-George (ed. & introd.); Shippey-Tom (ed.). Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Athens : U of Georgia P, 1992. 303 pp.

• Shippey,-Tom. “ Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostliness in the Work of Bruce Sterling.” 208-20 IN Slusser-George (ed. & introd.); Shippey-Tom (ed.). Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Athens : U of Georgia P, 1992. 303 pp.

• Easterbrook,-Neil. “The Arc of Our Destruction: Reversal and Erasure in Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction-Studies 19.3 (1992 Nov): 378-94.

• Nixon,-Nicola. “Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied? Science-Fiction-Studies 19.2 (1992 July): 219-35.

• Sponsler,-Claire. “ Cyberpunk and the Dilemmas of Postmodern Narrative: The Example of William Gibson.” Contemporary-Literature 33.4 (1992 Winter): 25-44.

• Hollinger,-Veronica. “Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism.” Mosaic 23.2 (1990 Spring): 29-44.

• Suvin,-Darko. “On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF.” Foundation:-The-Review-of-Science-Fiction, [London, England] 46 (1989 Autumn): 40-51.

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