Introduction: Fiction as Information

George Slusser

Part 1 The Movement: Forward or Backward?

Inside the Movement: Past, Present, and Future

Lewis Shiner

Futuristic Flu, or, The Revenge of the Future

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

The Frankenstein Barrier

George Slusser

Part 2 The Question of Tradition: Cyberpunk and Science Fiction

Deus Ex Machina in William Gibson's Cybrpunk Trilogy

Paul Alkon

``The Gernsback Continuum'': William Gibson in the Context of Science Fiction

Gary Westfahl

The ``New'' Romancers: Science Fiction Innovators from Gernsback to Gibson

Carol McGuirk

Part 3 The Question of Newness: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism

Newness, Neuromancer, and the End of Narrative

John Huntington

Cyberpunk and the Crisis of Postmodernity

Lance Olsen

Not What It Used to Be: The Overloading of Memory in Digital Narrative

Brooks Landon

Part 4 The Question of Generic Identity: The Cyberpunk ``Canon''

Of Als and Others: William Gibson's Transit

John Christie

Lewis Shiner and the ``Good'' Anarchist

Robert Donahoo

Chuck Etheridge

Separate Development: Cyberpunk in Film and TV

Frances Bonner

Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostliness in the Work of Bruce Sterling

Tom Shippey

Part 5 The New Metaphoricity: The Future of Fiction

Science Fiction, Rhetoric, and Realities: Words to the Critic

Gregory Benford

The Metaphors of Cyberpunk: Ontology, Epistemology, and Science Fiction

Ruth Curl

Frothing the Synaptic Bath: What Puts the Punk in Cyberpunk?

David Porush

Undecidability and Oxymoronism

Eric S. Rabkin

``We're on the Eve of 2000'': Writers and Critics Speak Out on Cyberpunk, HyperCard, and the (New?) Nature of Narrative

Terri Frongia

Alida Allison

Contributors

Index