Cyberfiction: After the Future

By Paul Youngquist

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230621511
• ISBN13: 9780230621510
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"