11.04.2008

Futurist/Cyberpunk Source List: Nonfiction Books

The source list was getting positively massive due to this section, so it gets its own post now.

Books

The Art of Noises
-- Luigi Russolo

Word and Music Studies: Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004) by Steven Paul Scher
-- Walter Bernhart and Werner Wolf

Envisioning the Future: science fiction and the next millenium
-- Marleen S. Barr

The Souls of Cyberfolk: posthumanism as vernacular theory
-- Thomas Foster

The Self Wired: technology and subjectivity in contemporary narrative
-- Lisa Yaszek

Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: the age of maturity, 1970-2000
-- Darren Harris-Fain

The Cybercultures Reader
-- David Bell

Postmodern Sublime: technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
-- Joseph Tabbi

Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative
-- George Edgar Slusser

Storming the Reality Studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction
-- Larry McCaffery

Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field
-- Suzanne M. Lodato and David Francis Urrows

Writing Through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics
-- Jann Pasler

Postmodern Genres
-- Marjorie Perloff

Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction
-- Niall Lucy

Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to the Theories of the Contemporary
-- Steven Connor

Essays in Postmodern Culture
-- Eyal Amiran & John Unsworth

The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism
-- Michael Patrick Gillespie

Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation
-- Veronica Hollinger & Joan Gordon

Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction: A Genre Study
-- Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage
-- Simon Shaw-Miller

Futurist/Cyberpunk Resource List: Fiction

Below is a list of the resources I've accumulated thus far. It's incomplete right now, but should be finished within the next few days.

((Nonfiction books have been moved to their own post))

Novels

The Sprawl Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
-- William Gibson

Johnny Mnemonic
-- William Gibson

Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology
-- Ed. Bruce Sterling

The Diamond Age (postcyberpunk)
-- Neal Stephenson

Accelerando (postcyberpunk)
-- Charles Stross

TV Shows

Serial Experiments Lain
-- Ryutaro Nakamura

Appleseed
-- Masamune Shiro


Movies

Bladerunner
-- Ridley Scott

A Scanner Darkly
-- Richard Linklater

Pi
-- Darren Aronofsky