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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction

Larry McCaffery

First published 1991
Publisher Duke University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art John Bergin
Pages xv+387
Price $49.95
ISBN 0822311585

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

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction Cover 1991 Duke University Press Trade Paperback Anthology John Bergin xv+387
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction Cover 2012 Duke University Press eBook Anthology