{"product_id":"fifty-key-figures-in-cyberpunk-culture-9780367549138","title":"Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection features key figures from a variety of disciplines, from novelists, critical and cultural theorists, philosophers, and scholars, to filmmakers, comic book artists, game creators, and television writers. Important and influential names discussed include: J. G. Ballard, Jean Baudrillard, Rosi Braidotti, Charlie Brooker, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Donna J. Haraway, Nalo Hopkinson, Janelle Monáe, Annalee Newitz, Katsuhiro Otomo, Sadie Plant, Mike Pondsmith, Ridley Scott, Bruce Sterling, and the Wachowskis. The editors also include an afterword of Honorable Mentions' to highlight additional figures and groups of note that have played a role in shaping cyberpunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis accessible guide will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural studies, film studies, l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent introduction to some of the writers, artists, theorists, and scientists whose influence has helped to shape today’s technocultural imaginary. Readers will (re)discover cyberpunk culture’s \u003ci\u003emakers\u003c\/i\u003e, from J.G. Ballard to Rosi Braidotti, from Marshall McLuhan to Richard K. Morgan, from Rudy Rucker to Joanna Russ, from Vernor Vinge to Norbert Wiener. \u003ci\u003eFifty Key Figures\u003c\/i\u003e is both an exciting supplement to MacFarlane, Murphy, and Schmeink’s recently published \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture \u003c\/i\u003eand an important contribution to cyberculture studies in general.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVeronica Hollinger\u003c\/b\u003e, Editor of \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a truly diverse and global array of entries that explodes the limits of cyberpunk’s perceived \"monocromatism,\" and heteronormative, masculine biases. The entries gathered here reveal cyberpunk to be a key cultural formation for investigating the racial, class, gender, and sexual intersections of our increasingly techno-saturated late capitalist present. Your favorite \"deep-cut\" author might be missing, but you’ll discover far more than you’ll miss.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugh Charles O’Connell\u003c\/b\u003e, Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From classic Movement sf writers like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan to key precursors like Samuel R. Delany, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Philip K. Dick and contemporary practitioners like Charlie Brooker, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Lauren Beukes, and Janelle Monáe -- with a truly global collection of writers, filmmakers, scientists, and philosophers spanning every field of art and innovation over more than a century -- McFarlane, Murphy, and Schmeink's \u003ci\u003eFifty Figures \u003c\/i\u003elays any possible doubt to rest: cyberpunk still rules our world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerry Canavan\u003c\/b\u003e, President of the \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Research Association\u003c\/i\u003e and Associate Professor of English, Marquette University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1. J. G. Ballard 2. Steven Barnes 3. Jean Baudrillard 4. Lauren Beukes 5. Rosi Braidotti 6. Charlton ‘Charlie’ Brooker 7. Pat Cadigan 8. David Cronenberg 09. Samuel R. Delany 10. Philip K. Dick 11. Cory Doctorow 12. Warren Ellis 13. William Gibson 14. Donna J. Haraway 15. N. Katherine Hayles 16. Nalo Hopkinson 17. Sogo Ishii 18. Ray Kurzweil 19. Jaron Lanier 20. Marshall McLuhan 21. Syd Mead 22. Misha 23. Moebius 24. Janelle Monáe 25. Richard K. Morgan 26. Annalee Newitz 27. Mamoru Oshii 28. Katsuhiro Ōtomo 29. Marge Piercy 30. Sadie Plant 31. Mike Pondsmith 32. Thomas Pynchon 33. Rudy Rucker 34. Joanna Russ 35. Melissa Scott 36. Ridley Scott 37. Lewis Shiner 38. Masumune Shirow 39. Warren Spector 40. Stelarc 41. Neal Stephenson 42. Bruce Sterling 43. Allucquére Rosanne ‘Sandy’ Stone 44. James Tiptree, Jr. 45. Alvin and Wendy Toffler 46. Shinya Tsukamoto 47. Vernor Vinge 48. Lana and Lilly Wachwoski 49. Norbert Wiener 50. Shoshana Zuboff Honourable Mentions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017952231767,"sku":"9780367549138","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367549138.jpg?v=1750775182","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fifty-key-figures-in-cyberpunk-culture-9780367549138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}