Literature, Cyberpunk Sci-Fi, Cyberspace, Critical Theory: An Overview

Avante-Garde, Counter Culure, and Postmodern Authors

• Kathy Acker
• J. G. Ballard
  • David Goldberg's New Perverse Logic: The Interface of Technology and Eroticism in J.G. Ballard's Crash and William Gibson's Neuromancer
• Jose Luis Borges
• William Burroughs
• Italo Calvino

Some Important Precursors of Cyberpunk Science Fiction

• Isaac Asimov's R. Daneel Olivaw (Caves of Steel)
• Robert Heinlein's Mycroft Holmes (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)

Cyberpunk Science Fiction

• Introduction
• Cyberpunk in Motion: Cinema, Anime, and Video
• Individual Authors (Conterio and Cook's Cyberpunk Science Fiction: A Bibliocritical Study)
• Hal W. Halls's authoritative Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database at the Texas A&M library: "As of February 2005, the database indexes 67,350 discrete items by author, title, and subject terms."
• Student discussion webs from English 111, Brown University
  • William Gibson's Neuromancer triology
  • Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
  • Rudy Rucker's -Ware Trilogy

Hypertext

• Mark Amerika, Hypertexual Consciousness
• Carolyn Guyer
• Shelley Jackon
• Michael Joyce
• Stuart Moulthrop

Literary and Critical Theorists

Last modified 5 February 2005