The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction

William Gibson (b 1948), since the publication of his first, award-winning novel, Neuromancer (1984), has been celebrated as a breath of fresh air in the realm of science fiction. This anthology of essays is an attempt to analyze Gibsons literary technique, his sustained critique of emerging technologies, and the nature of how fiction writing in general is continually categoriz...

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William Gibson (b 1948), since the publication of his first, award-winning novel, Neuromancer (1984), has been celebrated as a breath of fresh air in the realm of science fiction. This anthology of essays is an attempt to analyze Gibsons literary technique, his sustained critique of emerging technologies, and the nature of how fiction writing in general is continually categorized and canonized in the Postmodern Age.

Preface: The Magical Wardrobe - Carl B. Yoke
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Map for This Territory - Carol L. Robinson
1 Virtual Poltergeists and Memory: The Question of Ahistoricism in William Gibson’s Necromancer - Amy Novak
2 William Gibson on the Knife-Edge of a Specious Moment - Donald Morse
3 Improbable Impossibilities: The Difference Engine in Historical, Bureaucratic, and Mathematical Contexts - Scott P. Randby
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Preface: The Magical Wardrobe - Carl B. Yoke
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Map for This Territory - Carol L. Robinson
1 Virtual Poltergeists and Memory: The Question of Ahistoricism in William Gibson’s Necromancer - Amy Novak
2 William Gibson on the Knife-Edge of a Specious Moment - Donald Morse
3 Improbable Impossibilities: The Difference Engine in Historical, Bureaucratic, and Mathematical Contexts - Scott P. Randby
4 The Brain Is a Video Game: Communication Concepts and Gibson’s Mad, Bad Video Game World - Carol L. Robinson
5 Fogging “Johnny Mnemonic” - Carl B. Yoke
6 The Splinter in William Gibson’s Mind: How the Wachowski Brothers Re-envisioned “Johnny Mnemonic” - James Canacci
7 The Body as Data in an Information Economy: Multiple Levels of Discourse in “Johnny Mnemonic” - Joe Dudley
8 William Gibson’s Virtual Light: The Conversational Construction of Chevette Washington - Amy Eoff
9 “Disability” as Insight: The Body as Default Application in William Gibson’s Idoru - Jennifer L. Nelson
10 Hollow Voices, Haunted Spaces, and the Birth of the Rock Star Bride: Reassessing the Role of the Body in William Gibson’s Cyberpunk Fiction - Lisa Swanstrom
11 Cyber Babes and Byte Dudes: Neomedieval and Postmodern Matrices for the Environment and Body as Fluid Media for Sexual and Gender Identity - Carol L. Robinson
12 Straylight: William Gibson’s Gothic Mansion - William A. Senior
13 Postmodern Neoprimitivism: Anthropological Text as Horror Vacui in Count Zero - Don Riggs
14 The Antiheroes of Gibson’s “Sprawl” Stories - Carl B. Yoke
15 Fragments of a Hologram Rose for Emily: William Gibson, Southern Writer - F. Brett Cox
16 Boys Gone Wild: Necromancer as a Book of the Dead - Joseph A. Nazare
William Gibson’s Works to Date
Selected Bibliography
Selected Internet Sources
Index
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