bOING bOING
Ultra-happening cyberslacker antizine from the heart of
digitized desktop bohemia.
ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION.
Least reactionary of the standard American SF magazines.
INTERZONE
Foremost British SF magazine. Libraries should carry this worthy
zine as a public service, since individual US subscriptions are
costly.
SCIENCE FICTION EYE
More-or-less official lit-crit organ of cyberpunk SF and assorted
fellow-travellers. Very sporadic.
SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES
Dull gray academic rag seized in startling coup by wacky post-
modernists. Now almost readable!
WIRED
The first magazine of the 1990s that actually looks and acts
as if it belongs in this decade. Now in its fourth year!
21*C
Australian cyberculture weighs in with a big glossy artzine.
Non-Fiction, Critical Studies
STORMING THE REALITY STUDIO Larry McCaffery ed.
Cyberpunk's man-in-academe gives his highly postmodern take on
matters in this bug-crusher anthology.
CYBERPUNK: OUTLAWS AND HACKERS ON THE COMPUTER
FRONTIER Katie Hafner and John Markoff.
The best book to date on the outlaw "computer underground."
ACROSS THE WOUNDED GALAXIES Larry McCaffery ed.
McCaffery interviews various weirdo leading-lights of pomo SF,
including Gibson and Sterling.
THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, LAW AND DISORDER ON THE
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER Bruce Sterling.
It's not just for breakfast any more.
TERMINAL IDENTITY by Scott Bukatman
Headlong foray across the wild terrain of postmodern technology
theory.
THE HAPPY MUTANT HANDBOOK Mark Frauenfelder, Carla Sinclair, Gareth
Branwyn, Will Kreth, eds
The first Boing Boing book. More weird fun per micron than
normals will ever imagine.
ESCAPE VELOCITY by Mark Dery
Cyberculture: threat or menace? Round up the usual suspects:
Stelarc, Moravec, Pauline, Sirius, Mu, Frauenfelder, Haraway,
Orlan, Cronenberg, Dibell, Reznor, Leary, Lanier, Laurel, Barlow,
Sobchack, Ross, Milhon, Kelly, Gibson, Cadigan, Shirley, etc etc --
Good Lord, there's just no end to them.
