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  • The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture

    Edited by Anna McFarlane, Lars Schmeink, Graham Murphy ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.With technology seamlessly integrated into our lives and our selves, and social systems veering towards globalization and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology

    Seeing through the Mirrorshades

    by Anna McFarlane ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This book traces developments in cyberpunk culture through a close engagement with the novels of the ‘godfather of cyberpunk’, William Gibson. Connecting his relational model of ‘gestalt’ psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthumanism, 9/11, and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture

    Edited by Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy, Lars Schmeink ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    A 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.The 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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell ...
    Series series Studies in Gaming
    Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate between ludic (play) and narrative (story) paradigms remains the one that famously "never happened."This collection of new essays critically frames that debate and urges game scholars to consider it central to the field. The essayists examine various digital games, assessing the applicability of play ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Technology, Literature and Culture

    by Alex Goody ...
    Series series Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
    Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in manufacturing to computers and the internet, technology has reconfigured our relationship to ourselves, each other, and to the tools ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System

    by John Rieder ...
    A fresh approach to the history and shape of science fictionIn Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory. Rieder starts from the premise that science fiction and the other genres usually associated with so-called genre fiction comprise a system ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding William Gibson

    by Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A study of the science fiction author who popularized the concept of cyberspaceGerald Alva Miller Jr.'s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards. Gibson's iconic ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction Criticism

    An Anthology of Essential Writings

    by Professor Rob Latham ...
    Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:·Definitions and boundaries of the genre·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space'·Ideology and identity: from ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

    Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home

    by David T. Fortin ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Liquid Space

    Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age

    by Professor Sean Redmond ...
    Science fiction is perhaps the most effective genre to explore the concerns of the present whilst reflecting on the possibilities of the future. But what precisely can it tell us about present and future by setting these two timeframes in the same critical space? ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Life on the Screen

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer ... Read more

    $13.99 USD