Fiction 2000

This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. Cyberpunk is driven by deep concerns about society, ethics, and new technology and has been defined as the literature of the first generation of science-fiction writers actually to live in a science-fiction world.

About the author

George Slusser (Editor)
GEORGE SLUSSER is a professor comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Styles of Creation (Georgia).

Tom Shippey (Editor)
TOM SHIPPEY is a professor of English and medieval literature at the University of Leeds. He is the author or editor of five books, including the recent Fictional Space.

Product details

• Assisted by: T. A. Shippey (Editor), Thomas Shippey (Editor), Tom Shippey (Editor), George Slusser (Editor), George E. Slusser (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1992
• EAN: 9780820314495
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1449-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Ea
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies