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Critical Review by Keith R. A. DeCandido
SOURCE: DeCandido, Keith R. A. Review of Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction, edited by Larry McCaffery. Library Journal 116, no. 18 (1 November 1991): 99.
In the following review, DeCandido cites Storming the Reality Studio as “an important work.”
Editor McCaffery here [in Storming the Reality Studio] collects over 50 essays, short stories, novel excerpts, literary criticism, poetry, artworks, and a comic strip that illustrate the influences on and of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction and its distinctive sensibility. Most of the space goes to the two godfathers of cyberpunk, William Gibson (whose Neuromancer, Berkley, 1984, won the science fiction triple crown—Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards) and Bruce Sterling, but most other major cyberpunk writers are represented. McCaffery does not limit cyberpunk to science fiction but puts it in the context of postmodern literature and 1980s popular culture. The only...
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