Crime and Dislocation: William Gibson’s Modernity
INTRODUCTION . . . MITCH R. MURRAY AND MATHIAS NILGES
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
CHAPTER 6 . . . MARIA ALBERTO AND ELIZABETH SWANSTROM
William Gibson, Science Fiction, and the Evolution of the Digital Humanities
PART III. GIBSON AND THE PROBLEM OF THE PRESENT
Too Big to Fail: The Blue Ant Trilogy and Our Productized Future
Realist Ontology in William Gibson’s The Peripheral
CHAPTER 11 . . . CHRISTIAN P. HAINES
“Just a Game”: Biopolitics, Video Games, and Finance in William Gibson’s The Peripheral