Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life
(2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life. In G. Murphy, & S. Vint (Eds.), Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives (116-134). Routledge
This essay argues that the fantasies of disembodied flight evident in sf since the genre's inception become an explicit, and largely uncritical, metaphor for supposedly 'friction-free' capital-in-circulation in cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s and 1990... Read More about Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life.