Cyberfiction: After the Future

Youngquist, P.

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 immanent 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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-05-14

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349383481

DOI: 10.1057/9780230106215

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 253