{"product_id":"various-conjunctions-17-tenth-anniversary-issue-copy","title":"Larry McCafferty (ed) Storming the Reality Studio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuke University Press, 1991, softcover, 405 pages, 14.6 x 23.3 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEx-library copy. The cover shows obvious signs of wear\/creasing\/scuffs. The page corners are scuffed and the outside of the pages are lightly marked.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStorming the Reality Studio,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emarshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy bringing together original fiction by well-known contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStorming the Reality Studio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age. A rich opportunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSelected Fiction contributors:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William Vollman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSelected Non-Fiction contributors:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58728641364352,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/WhatsAppImage2026-08-18at16.00.43_1.jpg?v=1787065384","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/various-conjunctions-17-tenth-anniversary-issue-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}