Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt Austen Hardy and James Undisciplined Cultures Peacock Mary Somerville and Mr. Pickwick Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia Concealed Circuits Frankensteins Monster Replicants and Cyborgs Is Pip Postmodern Or Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium Genome Time New Age Evolution The Gold Bug Variations and Gattaca Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geeks Guide Charles Dickens in Cyberspace surveys novelists scientists filmmakers and theorists over two centuries tracing circuits that connect Austen Babbage Darwin Dickens and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett Peter Carey Richard Powers Salman Rushdie Ridley Scott Neal Stephenson Tom Stoppard and others