Larry McCafferty's "Storming the Reality Studio" (1991)
Durham, North Carolina, US: Duke University Press (anthology, book), 1991.
9.25" x 5.625" x 1.125", 387 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-8223-1168-2.
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction, an anthology edited by Larry McCaffery and published in hardcover and softcover [shown] editions by Duke University Press (Durham, North Carolina, US) in 1991. The title is a borrowed phrase from William S. Burroughs' Nova Express.
William S. Burroughs contributes "Mother and I Would Like to Know", from The Wild Boys, pp. 44-47.
This copy belongs to Janet Galore (Seattle, Washington) and is maintained in the archive.
Shoaf II.269.
Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Larry McCafferty: "Introduction: The Desert of the Real"
- Richard Kadrey and Larry McCafferty: "Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio"
- Fiction and Poetry:
- Kathy Acker: "Beyond the Extinction of Human Life (from Empire of the Senseless)"
- J. G. Ballard: "From Crash"
- William S. Burroughs: "Mother and I Would Like to Know (from The Wild Boys)"
- Pat Cadigan: "Rock On"
- Samuel R. Delany: "Among the Blobs"
- Don DeLillo: "From White Noise"
- William Gibson: "From Neuromancer"
- Rob Hardin: "Fistic Hermaphrodites"
- Rob Hardin: "Penetrabit: Slime Temples"
- Rob Hardin: "nerve terminals"
- Harold Jaffe: "Max Headroom"
- Thom Jurek: "From Straight Fiction"
- Richard Kadrey: "The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche (from Metrophage)"
- Marc Laidlaw: "Office of the Future (from Dad's Nuke)"
- Mark Leyner: "I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot (from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist)"
- Joseph McElroy: "From Plus"
- Misha: "Wire Movement #9"
- Misha: "Wire for Two Tims"
- Ted Mooney: "From Easy Travel to Other Planets"
- Jim O'Barr: "Frame 137"
- Thomas Pynchon: "From The Crying of Lot 49"
- Rudy Rucker: "From Software"
- Lucius Shepard: "From Life During Wartime"
- Lewis Shiner: "Stoked"
- John Shirley: "Wolves of the Plateau"
- Bruce Sterling: "Twenty Evocations"
- Bruce Sterling: "The Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu: 2-1-'16 (from Schismatrix)"
- William T. Vollmann: "The Indigo Engineers (from The Rainbow Stories)"
- Non-Fiction:
- Steve Brown: "Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy"
- Jean Baudrillard: "The Automation of the Robot (from Simulations)"
- Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.: "Cyberpunk and Neoromanticism"
- Jacques Derrida: "From Of Grammatology"
- Joan Gordon: "Yin and Yang Duke It Out"
- Veronica Hollinger: "Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism"
- Frederic Jameson: "From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
- Arthur Kroker and David Cook: "Television and the Triumph of Culture (from The Postmodern Scene)"
- Brooks Landon: "Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance"
- Timothy Leary: "The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot"
- Jean-François Lyotard: "The Postmodern (from The Postmodern Condition)"
- Larry McCafferty and William Gibson: "An Interview with William Gibson"
- Larry McCafferty: "Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations"
- Brian McHale: "POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM"
- Tom Maddox: "The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives"
- David Porush: "Frothing the Synaptic Bath"
- George Slusser: "Literary MTV"
- Bruce Sterling: "Preface from Mirrorshades"
- Darko Suvin: "On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF"
- Takayumi Tatsumi: "The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades"
- Bibliography
- Contributors









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