
By Larry McCaffery
By bringing jointly unique fiction through famous modern writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), serious remark through many of the significant theorists of postmodern paintings and tradition (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard), and paintings through significant practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), Storming the truth Studio finds a desirable ongoing conversation in modern culture.
What emerges such a lot strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the strength of expertise in shaping smooth lifestyles. it truly is accurately this quandary, based on McCaffery, that has placed technology fiction, as a rule the province of technological artwork, on the vanguard of inventive explorations of our specified age.
A wealthy opporunity for analyzing throughout genres, this anthology bargains a brand new viewpoint at the evolution of postmodern tradition and finally exhibits how deeply technological advancements have inspired our imaginative and prescient and our paintings.
Selected Fiction members: Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William Vollman
Selected Non-Fiction contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David cook dinner, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi
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