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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction Hardcover – January, 1992

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 387 pages
  • Publisher: Duke University Press (January 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0822311585
  • ISBN-13: 978-0822311584
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,070,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsStrap yourself in for a great ride...
By T. Fang on February 8, 2001
Format: Paperback
This book is a must-have if you're a fan of anything cyberpunk. There are more than 40 contributors, so not every piece is brilliant, but the book still deserves a five star rating. Highlights: fiction from almost everyone who was important in the cyberpunk movement (Gibson, Rucker, Shiner, Shirley, Sterling, etc.) and some other excellent writers not usually included in the group (Ballard, W. S. Burroughs, Pynchon), along with insightful essays by a diverse selection of writers including Timothy Leary and several important figures in the world of postmodern theory (Baudrillard, Derrida, Jameson, Kroker). Storming the Reality Studio is one book that I am proud to own, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA very fine anthology--well chosen
By A Customer on November 8, 1998
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I enjoyed this collection of cyberpunk writing immensely. McCaffery chose a fine collection of cyberpunk examples, ranging from the well known to the less known, from fiction to non-fiction ssay. The ordering is near perfection--the arrangement allows the pieces to speak to each other, and of each other (a very cyberpunkean move). Given the above reviewer's apparent distress concerning certain aspects of the book, and some misguided reductions of cyberpunk (basically just SF without hairy aliens; and his basic misunderstanding of the interpolation that occurs within the genre--i.e. his rantings re: Acker and hackdom), I hope this doesn't dissuade you from purchasing this very worthwhile book--it's wonderful. Especially exciting is the "Cyberpunk 101" section where various books and films are listed and shortly (and bitingly witty--see the one for Ballard's _Crash_) are recommended and briefly summarized.
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2.0 out of 5 starsInteresting ideas, but very scattershot
By Al Kihano on November 27, 1999
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It's a shame that this book had to be so big, and its excerpts so brief. McCaffery has chosen a good selection of postmodern SF, but the excerpts are too often just a couple pages long. The result is a book a mile wide and an inch deep: it touches on every aspect of postmodern SF without really explaining or clearing up anything at all.
A good way to use this book might be to read through it, choose what strikes your fancy, then buy the complete books attached to those. But I'm afraid if you just read this book, your glimpses of this very exciting genre will be too fleeting for you to get a good picture of it as a whole.
To his credit, McCaffery has chosen an excellent array of writers and subgenres, including many who I did not know were SF or who dealt with SF in ways I hadn't expected. I should also mention that the design of the book is fantastic.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent exploration in Cyperbunk
By Slashoom on May 2, 2014
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This book offers some great insight into the world Cyberpunk. It includes many great examples of literature that clearly defines the genre.
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4.0 out of 5 starsLearn cyberpunk fiction in 21 days: Guaranteed!!!
By A Customer on September 10, 1997
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Storming the reality studio

How to explain this book...
The young persons guide to modern Sf,

Nahhhh...

Cyberpunk sampler....no that's not it...

Ah ha! Got it!!!

The cyberpunk catalouge! That's good...

This book is, and i'm quoting from the cover, "A casebook of post-modern and cyberpunk fiction"...

Eeeep!

Whenever I hear the words "post modern" and "fiction", in the same sentence it makes my ears sweat. I don't like the term..not one bit...

But this book over came part of that fear...and take note when I say part..because it still needs something...like better content.

Don't get me wrong..I liked the book. It has some very good art and stories..including some rare art from J. O'Barr.

But a high proportion is shit, pure pseudo SF shit at it's most dismal.
It has excerpts from many a book...that's why it's like a catalouge.On how the editor Larry McCaffrey, has compiled this tome I have a theory.

McCaffery sits in his office. One man, a well dressed excec from a large publisher sits across from him in one chair, and a semi-serious Sf reader in another. They take turns choosing stories. the reader picks stories that best represent authors with a grasp of the field, and the exec looks at a list of books that sit unsold in one of his wharehouses.

I say this because that is how the book feels. some excerpts from novels have all the right in the world to be there. A "cyberpunk" book WITHOUT Neuromancer would be ludicrous.Read more ›
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