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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