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...Suzanne F. Boswell Abstract This essay uncovers the environmental and historical conditions that played a role in cyberspace’s popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. Tracing both fictional and critical constructions of cyberspace in a roughly twenty-year period from the publication of William Gibson’s...

... is the text of an interview of Benford by Slusser. William Gibson. By Gary Westfahl. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2013. 210 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $23.00; e-book available. Westfahl pays careful attention to major generic shifts in Gibson’s career, refusing to reduce the acclaimed science...

... the persistence of this anxiety over ghettoization, however, critical attention to SF has grown steadily since the 1970s, and American literature syllabi rou- tinely feature those very writers, as well as such contemporary fig- ures as Richard Powers, William Gibson, and Nalo Hopkinson. Con- versely, SF...

... to a central place in the entertainment industries, and computer workers learn how to think about the technological marvels they are con- structing from the novels of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson. The hybrid female bodies that Donna Haraway theorizes in ‘‘A Cyborg Manifesto...

... of strategies that construct the value of racial markers by orga- nizing a specific relation between background and foreground. In William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984), for example, each background space is highly coded through racial characteristics; each character is sharply marked off from...

... in his name were sent to the editors of Life magazine and the London Observer without his knowledge. He discovered that fellow expatriate Richard Gibson, with the alleged support of William Gardner Smith, had forged the correspondence putting him at risk for deportation (Fabre 1993a, 249...

.... WilliamDunlap’snowclassichistoryoftheriseofadistinctlynativetheater in the United States, the very first study to track the emergence of such a thing as American theater, is supplemented in this reprint of the 1832 edition by a complete index and new introduction by Tice M. Miller. ‘‘The Mysterious Stranger’’ Manuscripts. By Mark Twain. Ed. William M. Gibson...

... Hewitt by the Seneca Royaner John Arthur Gibson. In Gibson’s account, Creator fashions human beings and says, “‘I have planted human beings on the earth for the purpose that they shall beautify the earth by cultivating it, and dwell therein’” (Smithsonian Institution 1925 : 511). According to Mohawk...

... of racial dichotomy sometimes allowed very light-skinned African Americans to choose between a black or a white identity. ‘‘The position of the pale [black] individual wrote African American psychiatrist Charles Gibson in 1931...

... The emergence of the tremendously powerful Neuromancer at the end of William Gibson’s ( 1984 ) eponymous novel did some work to condition our cultural imaginary of AI as singular and paradoxically unimaginable, the newly fused fictional entity presented as so big and so comprehensive (“the sum total...

... the origins of cyberpunk—in Blade Runner (1982) or William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984)—Asianness has been invoked to trope futurity as such, a troping that has only recently come to be supplanted in part by Latinx. “Why has Japan been the setting for so much of my fiction?” Gibson asked in 2001...

... “individual and private access.” And yet, as Boswell demonstrates in her reading of William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy (1984–1988), the ecosystem of cyberspace never succeeds in manifesting the new frontier. Rather, it places users in an inescapable infrastructural connection to everything the frontier would...

... Erewhon; or, Over the Range (1872), and William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) to Donna Haraway’s well-known essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”; the histories of jazz, reggae, and dub music; and the work of Caribbean studies scholars such as Éduoard Glissant, Wilson Harris, and Sylvia Wynter. Like Anatomy...

...Patricia Kalayjian Duke University Press 2007 Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman . By Beth Sutton-Ramspeck. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 272 pp. Cloth, $55; paper, $24.95. Beyond the Gibson Girl...

..., for example, reconfigure the historical actors in accordance with differing political agendas. Elsewhere McWilliams dis- cusses such diverse writers as Samuel Adams, Edward Everett, Ethan Allen, William Carlos Williams, and Maryse Condé. To what end all these investigations? Partly to get...

..., Edward Everett, Ethan Allen, William Carlos Williams, and Maryse Condé. To what end all these investigations? Partly to get to the truth and partly to reveal the agendas of later writers. Confessing to the positivist sort of training that would lead him in truth’s direction, McWilliams spends...

... such diverse writers as Samuel Adams, Edward Everett, Ethan Allen, William Carlos Williams, and Maryse Condé. To what end all these investigations? Partly to get to the truth and partly to reveal the agendas of later writers. Confessing to the positivist sort of training that would lead him in truth’s...

... in accordance with differing political agendas. Elsewhere McWilliams dis- cusses such diverse writers as Samuel Adams, Edward Everett, Ethan Allen, William Carlos Williams, and Maryse Condé. To what end all these investigations? Partly to get to the truth and partly to reveal the agendas of later...

... of the antebellum period, for example, reconfigure the historical actors in accordance with differing political agendas. Elsewhere McWilliams dis- cusses such diverse writers as Samuel Adams, Edward Everett, Ethan Allen, William Carlos Williams, and Maryse Condé. To what end all these investigations...

... in accordance with differing political agendas. Elsewhere McWilliams dis- cusses such diverse writers as Samuel Adams, Edward Everett, Ethan Allen, William Carlos Williams, and Maryse Condé. To what end all these investigations? Partly to get to the truth and partly to reveal the agendas of later...