Cyberfiction
Author | : P. Youngquist |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2010-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230106215 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230106218 |
Rating | : 4/5 (218 Downloads) |
Download or read book Cyberfiction written by P. Youngquist and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.