Title: Cyberfiction : after the future /
Authors: Youngquist, Paul
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Science fiction, American History and criticism.; Science fiction, English History and criticism.; Cybernetics in literature.; Cybernetics in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers English.; Literary studies: from c 1900 English.; Literature.; Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English
Abstract: "Cyberfiction: After the Future explores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and culture - our world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneous capital flows, and imminent catastrophe. Economics fuses with technology to create a new kind of speculative fiction: cyberfiction. Paul Youngquist reveals the ways in which J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others, map a territory where information reigns supreme and the future is becoming a thing of the past."--Jacket.
Contents: Speculative futures -- Cyberfiction -- Crash-body -- Score, scan, schiz -- Queer science -- The space machine -- We can breed you -- Stealth.