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Review of Karin Hoepker’s No Maps for These Territories: Cities, Spaces, and Archeologies of the Future in William Gibson

The good news in Alex Link's review is that Karin Hoepker's No Maps for These Territories begins the necessary work on spatiality in William Gibson's first two trilogies. Still, much remains to be done. Link points the way to a critically productive analysis built on Hoepker's opening moves.

Joseph McElroy’s Cyborg Plus

Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.

Lost and Long-Term Television Narrative

David Lavery ponders the "neo-baroque" tap-dancing of TV's most playful and commercially successful serial drama.

Histories of the Future

Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.

Henry Jenkins responds in turn

Casting the ludology vs. narratology debate as a game in itself, Henry Jenkins brings Bible gardens and the duck-billed platypus into this defense of hybridity.