Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword... Malka Older: Crime and Dislocation: William Gibson’s Modernity
Introduction... Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges: Periodizing Gibson
Part I. Gibson and Literary History
Chapter 1... Phillip E. Wegner: When It Changed: Science Fiction and the Literary Field, circa 1984
Chapter 2... Kylie Korsnack: No Future but the Alternative: Or, Temporal Leveling in the Work of William Gibson
Chapter 3... Mathias Nilges: The Shelf Lives of Futures: William Gibson’s Short Fiction and the Temporality of Genre
Chapter 4... Takayuki Tatsumi: The Difference Engine in a Post-Enlightenment Context: Franklin, Emerson, and Gibson and Sterling
Part II. Gibson and the Question of Medium
Chapter 5... Andrew M. Butler: “A New Rose Hotel Is a New Rose Hotel Is a New Rose Hotel”: Nonplaces in William Gibson’s Screen Adaptations
Chapter 6... Maria Alberto and Elizabeth Swanstrom: William Gibson, Science Fiction, and the Evolution of the Digital Humanities
Chapter 7... Roger Whitson: Time Critique and the Textures of Alternate History: Media Archaeology in The Difference Engine and The Peripheral
Part III. Gibson and the Problem of the Present
Chapter 8... Sherryl Vint: Too Big to Fail: The Blue Ant Trilogy and Our Productized Future
Chapter 9... Amy J. Elias: Realist Ontology in William Gibson’s The Peripheral
Chapter 10... Aron Pease: Cyberspace after Cyberpunk
Chapter 11... Christian P. Haines: “Just a Game”: Biopolitics, Video Games, and Finance in William Gibson’s The Peripheral
Afterword... Charles Yu: The World Implied
Notes
Bibliography
Index