Index

1 • Introduction: The Desert of the Real • Larry McCaffery
17 • Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio • Richard Kadrey & Larry McCaffery 
Fiction and Poetry
33 • Beyond the Extinction of Human Life [from Empire of the Senseless] • Kathy Acker 
41 • from Crash • J. G. Ballard 
44 • Mother and I Would Like to Know [from The Wild Boys] • William S. Burroughs 
48 • Rock On • Pat Cadigan 
56 • Among the Blobs • Samuel R. Delany
63 • from White Noise • Don DeLillo 
65 • from Neuromancer • William Gibson
75 • Fistic Hermaphrodites • Rob Hardin
76 • Microbes • Rob Hardin 
77 • Penetrabit: Slime Temples • Rob Hardin 
79 • nerve terminals • Rob Hardin 
80 • Max Headroom • Harold Jaffe 
85 • from Straight Fiction • Thom Jurek
87 • The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche [from Metrophage] • Richard Kadrey
98 • Office of the Future [from Dad’s Nuke] • Marc Laidlaw
102 • I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot [from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist] 
109 • from Plus • Joseph McElroy 
112 • Wire Movement #9 • Misha 
114 • Wire for Two Tims • Misha 
116 • from Easy Travel to Other Planets • Ted Mooney 
118 • Frame 137 • Jim O’Barr
122 • from The Crying of Lot 49 • Thomas Pynchon 
125 • from Software • Rudy Rucker 
132 • from Life During Wartime • Lucius Shepard 
134 • Stoked • Lewis Shiner 
139 • Wolves of the Plateau • John Shirley 
154 • Twenty Evocations [“Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations”; Mechanist-Shapers] • Bruce Sterling 
162 • Mare Tranquillitatis People’s Circumlunal Zaibatsu: 2-1-’16 [from Schismatrix] • Bruce Sterling
168 • The Indigo Engineeers • William T. Vollmann
Non-Fiction
173 • Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy • Steve Brown 
178 • The Automation of the Robot [from Simulations] • Jean Baudrillard 
182 • Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism • Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
194 • from Of Grammatology • Jacques Derrida
196 • Yin and Yang Duke It Out • Joan Gordon
203 • Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism • Veronica Hollinger
219 • from Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism • Fredric Jameson
229 • Television and the Triumph of Culture [from The Postmodern Scene] • Arthur Kroker & David Cook
239 • Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance • Brooks Landon
245 • The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot • Timothy Leary 
259 • The Postmodern [from The Postmodern Condition] • Jean-François Lyotard
263 • An Interview with William Gibson • Larry McCaffery
286 • Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations • Larry McCaffery
308 • POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM • Brian McHale
324 • The Wars of the Coin’s Two Halves: Bruce Sterling’s Mechanist/Shaper Narratives • Tom Maddox
331 • Frothing the Synaptic Bath • David Porush
334 • Literary MTV • George Slusser 
343 • Preface from Mirrorshades • Bruce Sterling
349 • On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF • Darko Suvin
366 • The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades • Takayuki Tatsumi
375 • Bibliography 
385 • Contributors