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

Cyberpunk is the fiction of a culture saturated by electronic technology. Its vocabulary is the language of cybernetics, biotechnology, corporational greed & urban subcultures. Massively successful in both book & film form, cyberpunk has redefined not only contemporary science fiction but also, through its capacity to anticipate technology & its cultural impact, analytical work in the social sciences & humanities. Cyberpunk & Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers--Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shirley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson--setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema--from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix--and contemporary work on the culture of technology.