Science-fiction Studies, Volume 25, Part 3SFS Publications., 1998 - Science fiction |
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... Gibson.2 Virtual Light is Gibson's account of a near - future , post - quake Balkanized Cali- fornia . As in his earlier novels , the narrative structure remains both simple and predictable . The action is object rather than subject ...
... Gibson.2 Virtual Light is Gibson's account of a near - future , post - quake Balkanized Cali- fornia . As in his earlier novels , the narrative structure remains both simple and predictable . The action is object rather than subject ...
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... Gibson's most recent metaphors for the posthuman digital construct not only echo Marshall McLuhan's vision that " electronic man " would " metamor- phose himself into abstract information " ( McLuhan & Powers 94-95 ) , but are already ...
... Gibson's most recent metaphors for the posthuman digital construct not only echo Marshall McLuhan's vision that " electronic man " would " metamor- phose himself into abstract information " ( McLuhan & Powers 94-95 ) , but are already ...
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... ( Gibson , " DisneyLand " ) . 19 Gibson's elegant descriptions of the " song " of the Bridge's central pier , of Tokyo's " Golden Street , " of the " Millennial anxiety ” reflected in turn - of - the - century buildings , and in the ...
... ( Gibson , " DisneyLand " ) . 19 Gibson's elegant descriptions of the " song " of the Bridge's central pier , of Tokyo's " Golden Street , " of the " Millennial anxiety ” reflected in turn - of - the - century buildings , and in the ...
Contents
IN MEMORIAM | 401 |
ARTICLES | 411 |
Donald Palumbo The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank | 433 |
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