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There are 31 critical essays on Cyberpunk.
Critical Essays on Cyberpunk
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 Critical Essay by Thomas Foster
13,214 words, approx. 44 pages
 In the following essay, Foster analyzes the predominance of “themes of gender and sexual performativity or cross-identification in these narratives about cyberspace.”
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Critical Essay by Anne Balsamo
12,029 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Balsamo examines the effects of techo-culture on women and the feminist implications of cyberpunk.
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Critical Essay by Brian McHale
11,968 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, McHale delineates the relationship between the “postmodernist poetics of fiction and cyberpunk poetics.”
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Critical Essay by Claudia Springer
11,343 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Springer discusses the social implications of the disembodiment celebrated by cyberpunk.
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Critical Essay by Mary Catherine Harper
11,273 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Harper presents an overview of feminist cyberpunk criticism and argues that feminist cyborg literature is the seminal movement in a changing sociopolitical worldview.
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Critical Essay by Erik Davis
10,839 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Davis analyzes the place of historical gnosticism and allegory in cyberpunk fiction.
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Critical Essay by Thomas Foster
9,511 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Foster examines the implications of disembodied sexuality in cyberpunk culture.
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Critical Essay by Herbet Sussman
8,974 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Sussman discusses the cyberpunk reinterpretation of Victorian history in The Difference Engine.
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Critical Essay by Karen Cadora
7,973 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Cadora contrasts early, male-dominated, cyberpunk with the later wave of the movement led by feminists.
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Critical Essay by Veronica Hollinger
7,235 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Hollinger views cyberpunk in its relation to postmodernism, genre science fiction, and literary realism.
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Critical Essay by Tom Moylan
7,123 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Moylan examines contradictory views of future sociopolitical events in William Gibson's writing.
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Critical Essay by Terence Whalen
6,187 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Whalen explores the cyberpunk notion of “information” and its place in post-industrial society.
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Critical Essay by Ruth Curl
6,185 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Curl explains the historical metaphors of science that led to the development of science fiction and cyberpunk.
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Critical Essay by Ronald Schmitt
6,156 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Schmitt discusses William Gibson's mythologizing of technology in his fiction.
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey C. Bowker
6,084 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Bowker reviews several volumes of cyberpunk theory and maintains that the writing of cyberspace has global social significance.
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Critical Review by Thomas Foster
6,049 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following review, Foster analyzes Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment and Virtual Realities and Their Discontents, in terms of rhetorical and ideative content.
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Critical Essay by Steffen Hantke
5,423 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Hantke examines a subgenre of science fiction called “steampunk,” which rewrites and reinterprets events in the Victorian period.
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Critical Essay by Robert Crossley
4,985 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Crossley provides a survey of futuristic science fiction works and reviews several works that critically examine science fiction and cyberpunk.
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Critical Essay by Steve Jones
4,296 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Jones discusses cyberpunk's place in the “information marketplace.”
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Critical Essay by John Fekete
4,178 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Fekete reviews the volume Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction, providing a brief overview of the cyberpunk movement.
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Critical Essay by Lance Olsen
3,915 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Olsen examines the increasing conservatism and mainstream acceptance of cyberpunk and postmodernism.
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Critical Essay by Rob Latham
3,061 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Latham reviews Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative, finding the volume narrow in scope and lacking in substance.
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Critical Essay by Robert Latham
2,598 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Latham reviews Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment and discusses the merging of human and machine known as cyborgs.
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Critical Essay by Tom Maddox
2,302 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, which was originally published in 1988, Maddox provides a thematic overview of Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper stories.
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Critical Essay by Joseph W. Slade
767 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following essay, Slade briefly discusses notions about the “technological sublime” in Joseph Tabbi's Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk.
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