Index

Preface                                         IX
A brief guide to the book                       XVII
Introduction: science fiction and cyberpunk     1
1. Cyberpunk and virtual technologies           23 
2. Cyberpunk, technology and mythology          41
   Technology and mythology: origins            41
   Cyborgs                                      44
   Myth and religion in cyberpunk               52
   Fiction, theory and language of science      63
3. Cyberpunk and the body                       72
   The cyberbody                                72
   Idoru: the body as personality construct     79
   The ghost                                    83
   The stranger                                 88
   Burning chrome and Mona Lisa overdrive: 
   the body as commodity                        92
   The doll                                     105
4. Cyberpunk, gender and sexuality              109
   Technologies of gendered subject             109
   Gender roles in cyberpunk                    121
   Virtual sex                                  126
5. Cyberpunk and the city                       133
   Science and space                            134
   Digital maps: ON/OFF                         140
   Venice                                       146
   Space and narrative structure                150
6. Cyberpunk and the Gothic                     164
   The uncanny                                  167
   Layering and architecture                    172
   Families                                     184
   Fashion                                      193
   Time zones                                   198
Epilogue: cyberpunk and memory                  204
References                                      215
Guide to further reading                        237
Bibliography                                    241
Index                                           251