*Sorry, but I'm afraid that critics will have to empty clip after clip of rounds into the carcass of the thing and it's still gonna squirm. *Entertaining reading ...

Larry McCaffery, ed. Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham, NC, and London: Duke UP, 1991. xvii+387. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. We see through ...

Two fascinating new novels are not particularly difficult, but their relationship to established traditions of experimental literature is clear. Short-circuiting the language of literary value, ...

Editorial Introduction: Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism. Are we late? Are we early? Can it be we're on time? Linking postmodernism and SF is hardly a new thing; many of SF's most sophisticated ...

Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...