Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson

Rating:
Summary: A Great Start
Review: This book has a lot of valuable information on the cyberpunk movement, and Gibson's critical contribution to the genre. A little more history of cyberpunk would have been welcome -- for example, the book briefly deals with cyberpunk's roots in Victorian Gothic and hard-boiled detective fiction without really going into much detail. This is nit-picky, I know, but a definitive book on the subject would deal with the movement's history.

I'd also recommend Bruce Sterling's instrumental introduction to the cyberpunk anthology _Mirrorshades_, and _Storming_the_Reality_Studio if you're really too lazy to go out and actually read cyberpunk.

Rating:
Summary: A Great Start
Review: This book has a lot of valuable information on the cyberpunk movement, and Gibson's critical contribution to the genre. A little more history of cyberpunk would have been welcome -- for example, the book briefly deals with cyberpunk's roots in Victorian Gothic and hard-boiled detective fiction without really going into much detail. This is nit-picky, I know, but a definitive book on the subject would deal with the movement's history.

I'd also recommend Bruce Sterling's instrumental introduction to the cyberpunk anthology _Mirrorshades_, and _Storming_the_Reality_Studio if you're really too lazy to go out and actually read cyberpunk.