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William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture (Paperback)
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William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture (Paperback)
Series: New American Canon
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William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most
influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work
has only been studied partially and without full recognition of its
implications for literature and culture beyond science fiction. It
is high time for a book that explores the significance and
wide-ranging impact of Gibson's fiction. In the 1970s and 80s,
Gibson, the 'Godfather of Cyberpunk,' rejuvenated science fiction.
In groundbreaking works such as Neuromancer, which changed science
fiction as we knew it, Gibson provided us with a language and
imaginary through which it became possible to make sense of the
newly emerging world of globalization and the digital and media
age. Ever since, Gibson's reformulation of science fiction has
provided us not just with radically innovative visions of the
future but indeed with trenchant analyses of our historical present
and of the emergence and exhaustion of possible futures.
Contributors: Maria Alberto, Andrew M. Butler, Amy J. Elias,
Christian Haines, Kylie Korsnack, Mathias Nilges, Malka Older, Aron
Pease, Lisa Swanstrom, Takayuki Tatsumi, Sherryl Vint, Phillip E.
Wegner, Roger Whitson, Charles Yu
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